William Boyd

Person · Open Library

Born

7 March 1952

Works

119

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Film & TV

Writing · Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]

William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast, (present-day Ghana), to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health…

Known for

• Martin Amis: Money and Memories2023
• Remembers… — Self2022
• Hockney on Photography and Other Matters — Self2009
• Rabbit Fever — Self2006
• Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self2000
• Apostrophes — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Finland

Active from

1952

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

214

Total plays

2,269

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,587x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,924x

3. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 40,504x

4. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,975x

5. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,735x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.williamboyd.co.uk

Image

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