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William Boyd (born March 7, 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary English novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of several novels, including Brazzaville Beach, a disturbing novel about a female scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa. He won the Whitbread Book award in 1981 for A Good Man in Africa . He was also nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 for An Ice Cream War , which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize the same year.

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. When the book was launched it was not revealed that this was a work of fiction, some were duped by the hoax, it caused quite a stir once the truth was revealed.

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