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Boyd, William
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The British Gold Coast in 1950, and Boyd grew up in a house full of black servants. The British Gold Coast became independent Ghana when he was five years old, and the family moved to Nigeria, whose independence in 1960 was followed by military coups and civil war. The war in...
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Shepherd, Lynn
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that primarily were based upon classic novels from the 19th century. She is reticent about her private life and her background, but it is known that she studied Literature at Oxford University and started working with marketing and advertising for various firms in London. In 2000 she...