Early Life
Boyd was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Beatrice Lowrie, a fashion model, and Melville Boyd, a financier and investment banker whose own father was an Episcopalian minister. Boyd was raised Episcopalian (his maternal grandfather was Jewish).
In the early 1930s, Boyd's parents divorced and his mother retained custody of him. Boyd moved with his mother to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and then to Denver. During his time in college, despite early spiritual interests, he decided he was an atheist.
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