William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
Of Scottish descent, William Andrew Murray Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7 March 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor, and he was in Nigeria during the Biafran War, which had a profound effect on him. "It was crazy, idiotic, and not at all like I imagined war to be. All my ...
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William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
Of Scottish descent, William Andrew Murray Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7 March 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor, and he was in Nigeria during the Biafran War, which had a profound effect on him. "It was crazy, idiotic, and not at all like I imagined war to be. All my received opinions from books and television turned out to be misguided."
At the age of nine years he attended Gordonstoun school, in Moray, Scotland and then Nice University (Diploma of French Studies) and Glasgow University (MA Hons in English and Philosophy), where he edited the Glasgow University Guardian. He then moved to Jesus College, Oxford in 1975 and completed a PhD thesis on Shelley. For a brief period he worked at the New Statesman magazine as a TV critic, then he returned to Oxford as an English lecturer teaching the contemporary...
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