J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai and was interned as a child with his family in a Japanese civilian camp, an experience he would write about only forty years later. After two years he gave up medicine at Cambridge, leaving without a degree, served in the air force in Canada, and brought up his three children alone after the sudden death of his wife in 1964. He lived for nearly fifty years in the same suburban house, in Shepperton. He died in 2009.

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• NovelHigh-RiseJ. G. Ballard · 1975Literature