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Dec 12, 2023 · William Boyd has written 17 novels and multiple collections of stories, spanning fictional biographies, foreign adventures and even a James Bond thriller. So where’s the best place to start with the twice Booker Prize-nominated author? Written by John Self. Published December 12, 2023.
William Boyd. Actor: The Volga Boatman. The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker.
William Boyd (born June 5, 1898, Hendrysburg, Ohio, U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1972, Hollywood) was an American motion-picture and television actor who was best known for his portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy in a series of western films. “Death Crosses the River,” an episode of the radio show Hopalong Cassidy featuring actor William Boyd.
William Boyd is the author of seventeen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year...
Aug 13, 2023 · THE ROMANTIC, by William Boyd. The Romantics took their time coming. For 10 centuries in the West there was only God, and all art — the beautifully illuminated breviaries, the vast cathedrals...
To add more books, click here . William Boyd has 59 books on Goodreads with 265233 ratings. William Boyd’s most popular book is Any Human Heart.
William Boyd is perhaps best described as a wry historian of 20th-century life, and an ironic commentator on the ways that life has been represented, not only in literature, but in the companion genres of visual art, film and photography.
