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Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of East Anglia. He writes novels, plays, and collections of short stories including In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act and Nutshell. He has won numerous awards including the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites; the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1993 Prix Fémina Etranger for The Child in Time; the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction for Amserdam; the 2002 W. H. Smith Literary Award, the 2003 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, the 2003 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel for Atonement; and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Atonement… (more)
Atonement 25,830 copies, 612 reviews
Saturday 10,151 copies, 223 reviews
On Chesil Beach 8,309 copies, 362 reviews
Amsterdam 7,289 copies, 187 reviews
Enduring Love 5,725 copies, 108 reviews
Solar 3,567 copies, 145 reviews
The Cement Garden (Author) 3,490 copies, 94 reviews
Sweet Tooth 3,157 copies, 191 reviews
The Children Act 2,840 copies, 177 reviews
The Child in Time 2,506 copies, 46 reviews
The Innocent 2,378 copies, 47 reviews
The Comfort of Strangers 2,264 copies, 52 reviews
Black Dogs 2,235 copies, 47 reviews
Nutshell 1,889 copies, 122 reviews
First Love, Last Rites: Stories 1,210 copies, 13 reviews
Machines Like Me 1,204 copies, 57 reviews
The Daydreamer 1,082 copies, 19 reviews
In Between the Sheets 861 copies, 13 reviews
Lessons 618 copies, 43 reviews
The Cockroach 360 copies, 19 reviews
My Purple Scented Novel 137 copies, 15 reviews
Atonement (York Notes Advanced) 102 copies, 4 reviews
For You 71 copies
Racconti 46 copies
Soursweet 13 copies
Other Minds 4 copies
Lecciones (Spanish Edition) 2 copies, 1 review
The Diagnosis 2 copies
Disguises 2 copies
2004 2 copies
LLIÇONS 1 copy
Lekcje 1 copy
Düssel... 1 copy
E SHTUNA 1 copy
What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in… (Introduction, some editions) 800 copies, 14 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Contributor) 751 copies, 10 reviews
Rose Blanche (Editor, some editions) 656 copies, 87 reviews
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contributor) 419 copies, 2 reviews
Atonement [2008 film] (Original book) 351 copies, 4 reviews
The Wall Jumper (Introduction, some editions) 298 copies, 6 reviews
To the Hermitage (Tribute to author, some editions) 296 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2010 (Contributor) 224 copies, 7 reviews
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Contributor) 185 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 88: Mothers (Contributor) 162 copies, 1 review
Granta 73: Necessary Journeys (Contributor) 137 copies
The Gates of Paradise (Contributor) 111 copies, 2 reviews

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In 2002, Ian McEwan discovered he had a brother six years his senior who had been given up for adoption by his mother during World War II.
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