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Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana).
William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian professor and author William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster William Beaty Boyd (1923–2020), American university administrator
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.
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]
The New Confessions is the fourth novel by the Scottish writer William Boyd published in 1987. The theme and narrative structure of the novel is modelled on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions, the reading of which has a huge impact on the protagonist's life.
On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd.His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year, [1] and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel. [2]
Trio is a 2020 novel authored by William Boyd.Set primarily in Brighton, UK, in 1968, the trio of Boyd's title [1] follows the lives of: Elfrida Wing, an alcoholic writer interested in the suicide of Virginia Woolf in Rodmell; Talbot Kydd, a closeted film producer; and Anny Viklund, an American actress who is having a secret affair with her co-star.
Boyd in 2009. Bamboo is a collection of non-fiction works by the Scottish writer William Boyd. It was published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Hamish Hamilton. [1] In the United States, a paperback version was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2007 as Bamboo: Essays and Criticism. [2] [3] James Urquhart, for The Independent, said: "Much of it is ...