William Boyd
William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana in 1952 to Scottish parents—his mother a teacher, his father a doctor.
He spent his early years in West Africa, experiencing the Biafran War firsthand.
Educated at Gordonstoun, Nice, Glasgow, and Oxford universities, he earned a PhD on Shelley and briefly taught at Oxford before choosing writing over academia.
Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 1983, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Boyd lives with his wife Susan in France, where he produces award-winning wines.
