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Portrait of William Boyd Photo: Peter Peitsch (2009) / www.peitschphoto.com

Boyd, William

Country/Region:
United Kingdom, Ghana
Born:
March 7, 1952
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The British Gold Coast in 1950, and Boyd grew up in a house full of black servants. The British Gold Coast became independent Ghana when he was five years old, and the family moved to Nigeria, whose independence in 1960 was followed by military coups and civil war. The war in Biafra deeply affected him as a teenager.

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