William Boyd
Scottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Andrew Murray Boyd is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Biography Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast , 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 . In the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd's father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria and, at the age of nine, went to a preparatory school and then to Gordonstoun school in Scotland, and, after that, to the University of Nice in France, followed by the University of Glasgow, where he gained an M.A. in English & Philosophy, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. His father died of a rare disease when Boyd was 26.
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