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	William Boyd
		William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952.
		William Boyd became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983.
		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.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth17 (1664 words)

	Obituary: Ann Willets Boyd, a writer whose interesting life provided her topics
		Ann Willets Boyd was an imaginative and skillful writer of fiction, but one of the most interesting things she ever wrote must be the basic true story of her life that she prepared in advance for her own obituary.
		Boyd loved to garden, whether it was in her award-winning garden in Sewickley, or at the 13th- to 15th-century farmhouse that the globe-trotting -- and globe-sailing -- couple bought in Florence in 1983.
		Boyd was extremely well-read and well-dressed, her husband said, but "she was not flamboyant." Always fearful of talking in front of groups, she took a rather more quiet approach.
	www.post-gazette.com /obituaries/20001123boyd4.asp (641 words)

	"Fascination" by William Boyd - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Boyd's character-based yarns take place in all sorts of cities around the world -- in various eras -- and are told by men, women, children, and men and women who act like children.
		No, some of these women are just as oversexed and selfish as the men they share their stories with: a mother who cheats on her husband essentially under the gaze of her young son, the ultimate victim of her betrayal; a mistress who betrays her lover and conceives a child with his best friend.
		Boyd tells the stories of these fellow human beings of varying moral character and tracks their unpredictable behavior.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/01/24/boyd/index.html (578 words)

	William Boyd (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
		Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa.
		In 1998 Boyd produced Nat Tate: American Artist, 1928-1960 which presents the paintings and tragic biography of the New York based 1950's artist, Nat Tate, who actually never existed and was, along with his paintings, a creation of Boyd's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Boyd_(writer) (500 words)

	Any Human Heart by William Boyd - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Novelist William Boyd has a fondness for framing devices: The Blue Afternoon told the story of a man's love affair while describing his daughter's new and enigmatic acquaintance with him decades later, and Brazzaville Beach opens with a woman at a seaside African cabin reflecting upon the tumult of the previous years.
		One problem is Boyd's decision to make Mountstuart a successful and peripatetic enough author and gallery manager that he meets most of the great writers and artists of the early and mid-1900s.
		Boyd seems to find it interesting to imagine characters on the edge of great historic moments--one of the minor characters in The Blue Afternoon is a near-winner in the race for a flying machine.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2003spring/boyd.shtml (1049 words)

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		John Boyd is said to have resided in Mecklenburg County, NC and David Boyd moved to Texas.
		Another earlier possibility is that James was the son or brother of William Boyd, who purchased land in Buncombe County between 1790 and 1796.
		Anderson Boyd went on well into the early 1860's and was finally settled with the family members receiving their inheritance and Robert Boyd being exonerated.
	www.obcgs.com /boyd.htm (868 words)

	Harvard Book Review
		Like many of Boyd's characters, Edward has a distinctly dislikeable streak: although we sympathize with him in the beginning as he is bullied by academics at Oxford, as the story progresses, we see him cheat on his girlfriend with an irrepressible compulsion, tease his landlord, and mislead his blind tutoring charge.
		Boyd's formats also tend to rely on a series of brief, detached sections to move the narrative forward, which breaks the momentum of the plots.
		Boyd's character also gains insight from pigeons, but it is a dark, self-centered epiphany that comes with all the precision and coldness of a gunshot.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~hbr/issues/winter04/articles/boyd.shtml (877 words)

	Fascination - William Boyd
		William Boyd's collection of stories doesn't have quite the pull one would hope for, given the title.
		Boyd wants to belie this theory: many of these stories leave much that is uncertain.
		English author William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/boydw/fnation.htm (1159 words)

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		Boyd's earliest stories were written when he was an undergraduate in Glasgow.
		Boyd argues that the job of the novelist is to "tell you exactly what's going on in Anna Karenina's mind.
		That for Boyd is the fascination: the fascination with heartache, melancholy, and the terrifying pathos of failure.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/10/17/boboyd.xml (1076 words)

	Any Human Heart - William Boyd
		It is shot through with Boyd's customary fl humour, combining a dry and sophisticated wit with a love for the embarrassing and the absurd.
		Boyd does such a nimble job of ventriloquism in the book's opening sections that we find ourselves forgetting that Mountstuart is a fictional character.
		He does become a writer, though, unlike one of his close friends, never manages to establish himself as one and really build up a career: he writes too little, and what he writes is too varied.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/boydw/anyhh.htm (2091 words)

	Bookreporter.com - FASCINATION: Stories by William Boyd
		William Boyd is the award-winning author of eight novels, three short story collections, and twelve screenplays.
		Boyd supplies no ending to the story and doesn't need to as that unrequited, unfinished feeling is precisely the point.
		In "Adult Video," Boyd presents the first half of what perceptive readers will realize is a two-part tale of a young writer (Edward) and his dance with infidelity while on the brink of proposing to his soon-to-be wife.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400043204.asp (989 words)

	Boyd by reality - theage.com.au
		This is nothing,'' says Boyd, an eloquently bumbling figure with the kind of proudly swept back, receding mane that a man gets when he enters his 50s at peace with himself.
		Boyd can't remember exactly how many books he bought during the creation of his new novel, Any Human Heart, but thinks it's somewhere in the mid-hundreds.
		But you can bet that any convenience Boyd found in the structure of the journal was counter-balanced by the difficulty he found in locating the perfect pitch for Mountstuart's voice.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/08/1025667105994.html (1029 words)

	Zachariah Boyd- NC Genealogy -
		Your petitioners further show that under the will of Zachariah Boyd a true copy of which is herewith appended the foregoing lands are to be equally divided among the heirs of said Zachariah Boyd subject to such advancement of land as any of the seven may have received so as to make them all equal.
		Boyd, William Thomas Boyd Sr., W. Boyd, Mary Ann C. Boyd, Sarah E. Boyd, wife of Beza Boyd, Martha F. Archbell, and Minerva A. Newberry, defendants.
		Boyd $ 47.35 To Sarah E. Boyd $ 47.35 To Mary A. Boyd $ 47.35 To Charles Craig $ 23.67 To Mary Ann Jefferson $ 23.67 To Sarah J. Boyd $ 23.67 To Druscilla P. Boyd $ 23.67 To Caswell Boyd $ 23.67 To Oliver A. Boyd $ 23.67 To Wm.
	www.ncroots.com /Beaufort/ZBoyd1873.htm (3361 words)

	William Boyd - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and was brought up there and in Nigeria.
		William Boyd is married and lives in London.
		William Boyd is one of the world’s most loved novelists.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000004697,00.html (943 words)

	William Boyd - Books From Scotland
		William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1952, the son of expatriate Scots from Fife.
		Boyd's most recent work, Bamboo, is more autobiographical in tone, bringing together a selection of non-fiction writings from the past three decades.
		In William Boyd's array of styles and narratives, readers are moved from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxford to 19th century Russia.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/William-Boyd (525 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Any Human Heart: Books: William Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85.
		Elsewhere author William Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel.
		Not many authors are capable of what Boyd achieves in these pages: a clever interweaving of fact with fiction and a kaleidoscope of emotions that runs the complete gamut of human experience.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Any-Human-Heart-William-Boyd/dp/0141009284 (1236 words)

	'Any Human Heart' by William Boyd
		As a young writer who earns his living from magazine assignments, Mountstuart begins bumping into some of the most famous faces of the last century: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Ian Fleming and the Prince of Wales shortly before the scandal that ended his future as king of England.
		And though he defines his life that way, Mountstuart is an admirable character for the courage he showed in the face of tragedy and loss as well as the way he is always inventive, always determined to do better for himself.
		Entertaining and moving, Boyd's novel can be read with sheer pleasure not only for the delicacy of its emotions but for the truth of its perceptions.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030323boyd0323fnp6.asp (635 words)

	Boyd Family
		William Boyd of Rowan Co. NC married Isabel Leech in 1780.
		Adam Boyd (1692-1758) of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim served Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church in Lancaster Co. PA and married Jane Craighead, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Wallace Craighead of White Clay.
		This John Boyd of Ballymena must be related to Rev. William Boyd of the 1718 petition and to Rev. John Boyd of Ballymoney and Octoraro.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/lunchbox/625/leech/boyd.htm (2104 words)

	William Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Boyd (Colonel), United States Army Air Forces, base commander, Selfridge Field, Michigan, reprimanded in 1944 for ordering racially-segregated facilities for officers in violation of War Department regulations.
		William Boyd (Moderator), former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
		William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (died 1717)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Boyd (128 words)

	William Boyd - A biography of William Boyd.
		William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana in 1952.
		Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1982), was a dark comedy about a drunken diplomat who is being flmailed by a local politician whilst the country slowly falls into chaos.
		William Boyd is married, and divides his time between London and South West France.
	www.bookbrowse.com /biographies/index.cfm?author_number=851 (865 words)

	Any Human Heart by William Boyd - read review
		By both particularizing and universalizing his characters, Boyd creates a novel in which an exciting plot is crucial, since universal characters, by definition, cannot be unique.
		Because Logan Mountstuart is a writer, both of books and of feature stories for magazines, he is able to travel and to know the other writers and artists of the period.
		The publication of Boyd's book Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960, the 'biography' of a neglected genius, reportedly fooled a number of prominent art critics who claimed to have heard of the wholly fictional painter.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/boyd.htm (1364 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ANY HUMAN HEART by William Boyd
		William Boyd's latest novel, ANY HUMAN HEART, focuses on the life of Logan Mountstuart --- a writer, friend, lover and world traveler.
		Boyd brings all of these people and events into sharp focus, using a fictional character that you swear is real.
		Boyd does throw events and people at Mountstuart with a bit too much gusto at times.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375414932.asp (524 words)

	William Boyd (writer) Biography and Summary
		Trying to make sense of William Boyd's literary career as a whole is no easy task.
		William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March, 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
		Biography Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Boyd_(writer) (95 words)

	BOYD RECEIVES PAPAL HONOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		PITTSBURGH – William Boyd recently received the Benemerenti Award, a papal honor for a lay person who has given significant support to the activities of the Catholic Church or church-related activities.
		The Benemerenti medals, one for civil and one for military daring and courage, were first instituted by Pope Gregory XVI as merit awards.
		Boyd assisted in the creation of the Extra Mile Education Foundation, has been a continuing volunteer for the foundation and has served as the assistant treasurer and chairman of the foundation’s Development Advisory Committee.
	www.diopitt.org /education/boyd1010news.htm (135 words)

	Fascination by William Boyd \| PopMatters Book Review
		Boyd's work is, straightforwardly, a meditation on fascination, primarily the obsessive nature of the relationship between artist and subject.
		Many of Boyd's characters -- among them a film director in "Notebook No. 9," and a writer in the title story -- are tormented by their efforts to know and possess their subjects.
		Boyd explores the dislocating effect of art further in "The Ghost of a Bird," in which a solider injured in World War II loses his memory and can only recall the details of a story he wrote, believing them to be the facts of his own life.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/f/fascination-stories.shtml (1295 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Any Human Heart: A Novel
		About the Author: William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, and attended university in Nice, Glasgow and Oxford.
		William Boyd lives with his wife in London and southwest France.
		William Boyd's Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon, The Destiny of Nathalie X, An Ice-Cream War, The New Confessions, On the Yankee Station and Stars and Bars are available in Vintage paperback.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53320496 (443 words)

	Any Human Heart by William Boyd, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions
		One of the pleasures offered by William Boyd's new novel, Any Human Heart -- and its pleasures are countless -- is perhaps the simplest one a reader can know: following a character through his or her life.
		Boyd keeps his characters' marionette strings carefully hidden in the early portions of "Any Human Heart," he starts playing God with growing caprice in the latter half of the book, as he strains to add color and melodrama to Mountstuart's life.
		What sustains the reader through theseimplausible episodes is a fascination with Mountstuart's doggeddetermination to survive and Boyd's refusal to sentimentalize his move from self-absorption to a recognition of a larger world.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/7anyhumanheart.htm (1419 words)

	ANY HUMAN HEART - William Boyd - Penguin Books
		As a writer who finds inspiration in Paris and London, as a spy betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in ’60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times.
		While William Boyd's The New Confessions took the form of a fake autobiography and Nat Tate, a hoax biography, his eighth novel uses the device of the intimate journal to explore and describe a life, which spans every decade of the twentieth century.
		Logan Mountstuart is a writer who experiences tremendous success early in his life followed by a long slide into poverty and obscurity.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141009284,00.html?sym=EXC (2429 words)

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