Biography
Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life within Ghana. He was educated at Gordonstoun school, and Glasgow University in Scotland, and thence Jesus College, Oxford

His number 1 novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published while he was the lecturer within English at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

He was awarded the CBE around 2005. He presently sleep in London.

Work
Boyd, world health organization is of the equivalent generation when Martin Amis, Julian Barnes & Ian McEwan, has been, a select few humans suppose, "overlooked" as the novelist, largely because he has saved a moo public profile. Although his novels keep around been short-employed for major prizes, he hwhen never experienced quite a equivalent publicity as his coeval. Boyd wwhen selected inside 1983 as one of a Twenty 'Right of Young British Novelists' around a promotion start by Granta magazine & the Book Marketing Council.

His novels include Brazzaville Beach, about the female man of science exploring chimpanzee behaviour in Africa; A Good Man in Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981, and An Ice Cream War, for which he was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982. A book won a John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the same season. Any Human Heart was long-listed for the Booker Prize within 2002.

As the film writer Boyd has written a total of feature & television productions. A feature include: Stars and Bars (1988), adapted from his have novel; Mister Johnson (1990); A Good Man in Africa (1994), also adapted from either his have novel; Scoop (1987), adapted from either a Evelyn Waugh novel, and The Trench (1999) which he also directed. He was one of the total of writers world health organizatiin worked on Chaplin (1992). His television screenwriting credits include: Armadillo (2001), adapted from his have novel & Good and Bad at Games (1983).

Around 1998 Boyd produced Nat Tate: American Creative person, 1928-1960 which presents a paintings & tragical life history of the Future York depending 1950's creative person, Nat Tate, world health organization actually never existed & was, along by having his paintings, the creation of Boyd's. Whilst the book was launched it was non revealed that this was a operate of fiction. A select few were duped per humbug; it driven quite an stir when a truth was revealed.