William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beachwon the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoonwon the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
