Boyd, William Andrew Murray
Boyd, William Andrew Murray ( 1952 – ),novelist, born in Accra, Ghana. Educated at Gordonstoun and the universities of Nice and Glasgow and at Jesus College, Oxford. From 1980 to 1983 Boyd was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. A Good Man in Africa ( 1981 ) is a comic tale of diplomatic life in a minor West African posting somewhat in the manner of Kingsley Amis . A collection of short stories, On the Yankee Station, appeared in 1981 and was followed by An Ice-Cream War ( 1982 ), a serio-comic tale set in East Africa during the First World War which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Stars and Bars ( 1984 ), which was also adapted for television, and The New Confessions ( 1987 ), the sadly comic autobiography of a self-styled genius, consolidated Boyd's reputation as an accomplished storyteller with an instinct for inventive comedy....
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