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Ian McEwan

By Mark Flanagan, About.com


British author, Ian McEwan, was born in Aldershot, England in 1948. The son of a military man, McEwan spent his childhood abraod in various locales in Africa, Asian, and Europe. In 1998, McEwan was awarded the Booker Prize for Amsterdam, and his 2001 novel, Atonement, was nominated for the Booker. His 2005 novel is entitled Saturday and recounts a single day in the life of a successful English neurosurgeon.
Ian McEwan's fiction includes:

First Love, Last Rites 1975
In Between the Sheets 1978
The Cement Garden 1978
The Comfort of Strangers 1981
The Child in Time 1987
The Innocent 1990
Black Dogs 1992
The Daydreamer 1994
The Short Stories 1995
Enduring Love 1997
Amsterdam 1998
Atonement 2001
Saturday 2005

Nationality:

British

Dates:

(1948 - )

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