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J. G. Ballard was born to Edna Johnstone (1905–1998) [6] and James Graham Ballard (1901–1966), who was a chemist at the Calico Printers' Association, a textile company in the city of Manchester, and later became the chairman and managing director of the China Printing and Finishing Company, the Association's subsidiary company in Shanghai. [6]
Apr 19, 2009 · About J.G. Ballard: James Graham J. G. Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard ca...
Aug 5, 2024 · J.G. Ballard was a British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. The son of a British business executive based in China, Ballard spent four years of his boyhood in a Japanese prison camp near Shanghai during World War II.
Novelist, essayist and short-story writer J(ames) G(raham) Ballard was born in Shanghai, China on 15 November 1930. His family was interned by the Japanese during the Second World War, returning to Britain in 1946.
Feb 6, 2024 · J. G. Ballard, the British science fiction writer and surrealist, is often credited as some kind of modern-day prophet. But what he was really doing was taking contemporary trends and extending them to their logical extremes, argues Mark Blacklock, the literary scholar and editor of a new collection of Ballard's nonfiction writing. Here he ...
J.G. Ballard has 409 books on Goodreads with 492855 ratings. J.G. Ballard’s most popular book is High-Rise.
Feb 8, 2024 · James Graham “J.G.” Ballard (1930-2009) was a British author and journalist. Best known for his dystopic works of science fiction, his novels include “Crash” (1973) and “High-Rise” (1975).
J.G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction writing for over three decades and became a bestselling writer of international stature. He wrote his first novel, The Drowned World , in 1961.
Apr 21, 2009 · J. G. Ballard, a writer of dystopian, literary fiction whose novels and short stories of a contemporary society in insidious thrall to technology, the media and relentless progress both...
Apr 20, 2009 · When J. G. Ballard, who passed away Sunday, at the age of seventy-eight, was trying to place “Crash,” his dystopian masterpiece of “auto” eroticism, with a publisher, he received a note ...
