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Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he lived from 1909 to 1913. [1] He was the son of day laborer Charles William Boyd and his wife Lida (née Wilkens). Following his father's death, Boyd moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. [2]
Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the ...
William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.
WRITERS ON READING: The ‘Gabriel’s Moon’ author on which of his 18 novels means the most to him, and the book he once loved obsessively
Actor William Boyd and his wife Grace, in Australia promoting Hopalong Cassidy, 1954. Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy might have a future in television, so he sold or mortgaged most of what he owned to buy the character rights from Mulford and the backlog of movies from Sherman, spending $350,000 to obtain the rights to his old films. [4]
According to Forbes, she had a net worth of $2.7 billion in August 2015. [2] ... She married William B. Boyd in 1982. Boyd died on January 29, 2016, ...
The average net worth among those age 45 to 54 is around $971,000, while the median sits at around $247,000. The vast difference is likely due to extremely wealthy outliers, which can skew the ...
The exact net worth of any royal family member is unknown, and estimates from online sources range. CelebrityNetWorth has pegged the net worth of Prince William, next in line to the throne, at ...