Wilbur Smith: Novelist sold 50 million books and lives on island paradise

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Wilbur Smith: Novelist sold 50 million books and lives on island paradise

Date9/12/1990

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Weil, Bernard (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Wilbur Smith: Novelist sold 50 million books and lives on island paradise.

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

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