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Thomas Alexander Boyd, novelist, journalist, and biographer was born in Defiance, Ohio, on 3 July 1898. His ancestors had been among the early settlers of the Ohio region, coming from Pennsylvania and...
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In the following review, Crawford calls Through the Wheat “a remarkable first novel” despite a disappointing ending.
War is a panorama of “grim comic imbecility” to the eye...
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In the following review, Walton finds In Time of Peace an unsatisfactory sequel to Boyd's Through the Wheat.
Written just before his recent death, the title of Mr. Boyd's novel is astrin...
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In the following review, Fussell asserts that Through the Wheat has been overvalued as both literature and as a document of war-time experience.
Thomas Boyd's novel of 1923 about his experience...
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Thomas (Alexander) Boyd
Critical Review by John W. Crawford
