biography
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Ballard, J(ames) G(raham)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Shanghai, E China. He studied at Cambridge, and became a science fiction writer, fashioning a series of novels at once inventive, experimental, and often bizarre. His early novels, including his first, The Drowned World (1962), offer a view of the world beset by elemental catastrophe. He has been admired chiefly for his short stories, particularly those included in such collections as The Terminal Beach (1964), The Disaster Area (1967), and Vermilion Sands (1973). His 1973 novel Crash was made into a controversial film by David Cronenberg in 1996. Empire of the Sun (1984; filmed by Spielberg, 1987), a mainstream novel which is portentously autobiographical, was short-listed for the Booker Prize. A sequel, The Kindness of Women, appeared in 1991. Later works include Rushing to Paradise (1994) and Super-Cannes (2000). |
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