J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. Ballard, at eleven years old, lived through the Japanese takeover of China. He was moved to a civilian detention camp where he spent the remainder of World War II. These experiences were described in the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (which was adapted for film by Steven Spielberg). After the war's end he returned to England. He was first educated at the the Ley's School, Cambridge, then read Medicine at King's College, Cambridge (which he abandoned after two years) and later English Literature at the University of London. He also worked as a copywriter and then was stationed with the RAF in Canada. Ballard wrote about these and later events in another semi-autobiographical novel The Kindness of Women.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Wind From Nowhere (1961)
• The Drowned World (1962)
• The Burning World (1964) AKA The Drought (1965)
• The Crystal World (1966)
• The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) aka ' (1972)
• Crash (1973)
• Concrete Island (1974)
• High Rise (1975)
• The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
• Chronopolis (1979)
• Hello America (1981)
• Empire of the Sun (1984, fictionalised autobiography of his adolescence in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai)
• The Day of Creation (1987)
• Running Wild (1988)
• The Kindness of Women (1991, follow up to Empire Of The Sun covering his early adulthood)
• Rushing to Paradise (1994)
• Cocaine Nights (1996)
• Super-Cannes (2000)
• Millennium People (2003)

Short Story Collections

• The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962)
• Billenium (1962)
• Passport to Eternity (1963)
• The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963)
• The Terminal Beach (1964)
• The Impossible Man (1966)
• The Venus Hunters (1967)
• The Overloaded Man (1967)
• The Disaster Area (1967)
• The Day of Forever (1967)
• Vermilion Sands (1971)
• Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971)
• Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976)
• The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977)
• The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978)
• Myths of the Near Future (1982)
• The Voices of Time (1985)
• Memories of the Space Age (1988)
• War Fever (1990)
• The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (2001)

Other

• ' (1996)