Boyd William

Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, and spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria.

 

He was educated at Gordonstoun school; and then the University of Nice, France, the University of Glasgow, and finally Jesus College, Oxford.

 

Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published.

 

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005.