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Early life and education
Boyd was born July 2, 1888, to a wealthy coal and oil family in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital of Pennsylvania, located in Dauphin County. He was the son of John Yeomans Boyd, an industrialist and lay Presbyterian, and Eleanor Gilmore Herr Boyd. His parents were both from North Carolina. The family owned three townhouses and a country estate.

As a boy, Boyd was tutored at home due to ill health. At the age of 12, he was sent to The Hill School, an elite and highly selective preparatory boarding school for boys in Pottstown, PA, which he attended from 1901 to 1906. It was there that he first discovered his aptitude for writing. By 1904, his first short story was published, earning him the Alfred Raymond Memorial Prize in 1906. During his time there, he served as the editor-in-chief of the school's literary magazine. Despite his apparent talent for writing, Boyd's father still had plans

Thereafter, 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, where he received a master's in English Literature in 1912 and Cambridge.

He returned to his native Harrisburg to teach English and French at Harrisburg Academy and then moved to Weymouth, a family estate established by his grandfather near Southern Pines, North Carolina in 1914. Boyd had contracted a mild case of polio and he hoped that the milder Southern climate would assist his recovery.

In the fall of 1916, Boyd