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American novelist

James Boyd (July 2, 1888 – February 25, 1944) was an American novelist, most famous for his Revolutionary War novel Drums, which was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.

Early life and education

Boyd was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, into a wealthy coal and oil family. He was the son of John Yeomans Boyd and Eleanor Gilmore Herr Boyd, who were from North Carolina. He attended The Hill School.^[1] He attended Princeton University where he wrote verse and fiction for the Tiger and was its managing editor in his senior year. After graduation in 1910, he studied at Trinity College and Cambridge.

Career

Boyd served overseas with the Army Ambulance Service in World War I. After World War I, he experienced ill health, and retired to Weymouth, a house his grandfather built in Southern Pines, North Carolina.^[2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[3]

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