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.
After World War I, he experienced ill health, and retired to Weymouth, a house his grandfather built in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
[3] Boyd's first book, Drums, was set in Edenton, North Carolina, and has been called the best novel written about the American Revolution.
), produced a series of original radio plays in response to what they saw as antidemocratic attitudes prevalent in America due to the growing war in Europe.
Some of the writers who attended were Paul Green, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Struthers Burt, and John Galsworthy.