William Boyd
William Boyd is a Ghanaian-born British author of novels and screenplays. He grew up there, and then went to university in Nice, Glasgow and Oxford. He has won many awards including the Whitbread First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. His novel An Ice-Cream War was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2005, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. William is married and splits his time between London, England and France.
