William Boyd
Sign in to saveScottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer (born 1952)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 March 1952
- Works
- 119
Top works
- The Predicament
- An ice-cream war
- Any human heart
- Waiting for sunrise
- Brazzaville Beach
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Film & TV
Writing · Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]
William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast, (present-day 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 Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health…
Known for
- Martin Amis: Money and Memories2023
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Hockney on Photography and Other Matters — Self2009
- Rabbit Fever — Self2006
- Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self2000
- Apostrophes — Self1975
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 214
- Total plays
- 2,269
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,303x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,750x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,415x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,900x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
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Key dates
- Born
- 7 March 1952
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Boyd
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Accra
- Occupation
- author
- Educated at
- University of Côte d'Azur
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
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Categories
1952 births20th-century Scottish autobiographers20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights20th-century Scottish essayists20th-century Scottish male writers20th-century Scottish non-fiction writers20th-century Scottish novelists20th-century Scottish screenwriters20th-century Scottish short story writers21st-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights21st-century Scottish essayists