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; andThe Blue Aftern...

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; andThe Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.