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Every Time One Of My Books Sells A Million Copies In Paperback, Pan Macmillan Gives Me A Gold Statuette Of Pan. I Have About 20 Of Them.

My Family Wasn't Terribly Affluent And Looked Upon Money Very Carefully As Something That Had To Be Saved, Not Spent. My Father Built The Ducting That Took Air Into The Copper Mines And Made About 6 D A Yard In The Thirties, Which Was Good Money Back Then.

At The Age Of 12 I Won The School Prize For Best English Essay. The Prize Was A Copy Of Somerset Maugham's 'introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To This Day I Keep It On The Shelf Between My Collection Of Forester's Works And The Little Urn That Contains My Mother's Ashes.

I Grew Up In Rhodesia On My Father's Ranch And Every Year He Used To Take Us On Safari In Some Remote Area Of The Wilderness.

They Do Say That Socialism Is The Ideal Philosophy-just As Long As You Have Capitalists To Pay For It.