William Boyd

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Boyd
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Mar 7, 1952(1952-03-07)
Age	72
Birthplace	Accra
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Accra
Horoscope	Aries

William Boyd Biography

William Boyd is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on March 7, 1952 in Accra, Accra, United Kingdom. Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, 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 then Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University of Ghana, Legon (formerly University College of the Gold Coast). 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, France, followed by the University of Glasgow, where he gained an M.A.(hons) in English & Philosophy, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. His father died of a rare disease when Boyd was 26.

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 World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious male 20th-century British writer, which won the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. Restless, the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel of the Year award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd’s novel Waiting for Sunrise was published in 2012. Following Solo in 2013, Sweet Caress was published in 2015, the fourth novel Boyd has written from a woman’s viewpoint. His fifteenth novel, Love is Blind, was published in 2018.

In 1998, Boyd published Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960, which presents the paintings and tragic biography of a supposed New York-based 1950s abstract expressionist painter named Nat Tate, who actually never existed and was, along with his paintings, a creation of Boyd’s. When the book was initially published, it was not revealed that it was a work of fiction, and some were duped by the hoax; it was launched at a lavish party, with excerpts read by David Bowie and Gore Vidal (who were in on the joke), and a number of prominent members of the art world claimed to remember the artist. It caused quite a stir once the truth was revealed. The name “Nat Tate” is derived from the names of the two leading British art galleries: the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Boyd, who also paints, made artwork under the pseudonym of Nat Tate and sent it to auction, where it raised funds for an art charity. Nat Tate also appears in Any Human Heart, also by Boyd, with a wry footnote to the 1998 book.

Protobiography, an autobiographical work by Boyd that recalls his early childhood, was published initially in 1998 by Bridgewater Press in a limited edition. A paperback edition was published in 2005 by Penguin Books. A collection of Boyd’s journalism and other non-fiction writing was published in 2005 as Bamboo.

Several collections of short stories by Boyd have been published, including On the Yankee Station (1981), The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’ (1995), Fascination (2004) and The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth (2017). In his introduction to The Dream Lover (2008), Boyd says that he believes the short story form to have been key to his evolution as a writer.

William Boyd Net Worth

William Boyd is one of the richest Screenwriter from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Boyd 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

Between 1980 and 1983 Boyd was a lecturer in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was also television critic for the New Statesman between 1981 and 1983.

As a screenwriter Boyd has written a number of feature film and television productions. The feature films include: Scoop (1987), adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel; Stars and Bars (1988), adapted from Boyd’s own novel; Mister Johnson (1990), based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary; Tune in Tomorrow (1990), based on the Mario Vargas Llosa novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter; A Good Man in Africa (1994), also adapted from his own novel; The Trench (1999) an independent war film which he also directed; Man to Man (2005), a historical drama which was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival; and Sword of Honour, based on the Sword of Honour trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh. He was one of a number of writers who worked on Chaplin (1992). His television screenwriting credits include: Good and Bad at Games (1983), adapted from Boyd’s short story about English public school life; Dutch Girls (1985); Armadillo (2001), adapted from his own novel; A Waste of Shame (2005) about Shakespeare’s composition of his sonnets; Any Human Heart (2010), adapted from Boyd’s own novel into a Channel 4 series starring Jim Broadbent, which won the 2011 Best Drama Serial BAFTA award; and Restless (2012), also adapted from his own novel.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is William Boyd Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

William Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. William Boyd celebrates birthday on March 7 of every year.

Was William Boyd a real cowboy?

William Boyd
Born| June 5, 1895 Hendrysburg, Ohio, U.S.
Died| September 12, 1972 (aged 77) Laguna Beach, California, U.S.

What happened to William Boyd?

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13 (AP) —William Boyd, who rose to stardom as Hopalong Cassidy, died last night at a South Laguna Beach, Calif., hospital of complications from Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure. He was 74 years old.

How did William Boyd make his money?

And while Hopalong cleaned up the West on both big and small screens, Boyd simply cleaned up. The actor made a fortune from his millions of fans around the world, endorsing or licensing 2,400 products, from roller skates to a complete bedroom set.

Is William Boyd still alive?

September 12, 1972

Did William Boyd serve in the military?

North Barnstead, New Hampshire. William Boyd enlisted in the Army Air forces Aviation Cadet Program in World War II. Although he did not participate in any combat assignments in that war, he did participate in the Berlin Airlift in 1948-49.