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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]
In a prolific literary career spanning 18 novels, William Boyd has become known for his masterfully interwoven plots, his sweeping historical backdrops, and his consistent readability.. From the ...
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).
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]
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.
William Boyd (colonel) (fl. 1940s), US Army Air Forces base commander, referenced in Freeman Field mutiny; William Boyd (minister) (died 1772), Irish Presbyterian minister; William Boyd (priest) (1726–1795), Irish Anglican priest; William C. Boyd (1903–1983), American immunologist; William Boyd III (born 1968 or 1969), New Hampshire state ...
The Hopalong Cassidy film series ended in 1948, due to declining revenues, and their star William Boyd, who was now 53 years old, was regarded as a film star of the past. . However, Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy might have a future in television, and spent $350,000 to obtain the rights to his old films; [1] he sold or mortgaged almost everything he owned to raise the mon
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...