num_pages: 56
description: William Boyd has been writing well-loved, prize-winning fiction since Penguin published A Good Man in Africa in 1981. His fiction is often a revealing excavation of an individual life and in Protobiography, Boyd turns to his own biography for inspiration, exploring his childhood in West Africa and his schooling in Scotland.
language: English
title: Protobiography
titlecomplete: Protobiography
genres: Biography, Memoir, Short Stories, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Penguin Books