Ian McEwan Biography (1948-)

Full name, Ian Russell McEwan; born June 21, 1948, in Aldershot, England; sonof David (an army officer) and Rose Lilian Violet (Moore) McEwan; married Penny Allen (a healer and astrologer), 1982; children: two sons, two stepdaughters. Addresses: Agent--c/o Jonathan Cape, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd., London SW1V 28A, England.

Nationality
English
Gender
Male
Birth Details
June 21, 1948
Aldershot, England

Famous Works

  • Writings;Screenplays
  • The Ploughman's Lunch, Samuel Goldwyn, 1983, published by Methuen(London), 1985.
  • Adapter (with Mike Newell), Sour Sweet (based on a novel by Timothy Mo), British Screen/Film Four/Zenith, 1989.
  • The Good Son, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992.
  • Author of Last Day of Summer (based on a story by McEwan), 1984.
  • Writings; Plays
  • Or Shall We Die: An Oratorio(score by Michael Berkeley), Royal Festival Hall, 1983, then Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1985, published by J. Cape (London), 1983.
  • Author of Strangers (based on McEwan's novel The Comfort of Strangers), produced in London, 1989.
  • Writings; Television Plays
  • Jack Flea's Celebration, BBC, 1976.
  • The Imitation Game, BBC, 1980.
  • Author of the play Solid Geometry.
  • Writings; Novels
  • The Cement Garden, Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1978.
  • The Comfort of Strangers, Simon & Schuster, 1981.
  • The Child in Time, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1987.
  • The Innocent, Doubleday (New York City), 1990.
  • Black Dogs, Nan A. Talese (New York City), 1992.
  • The Daydreamer, HarperCollins (New York City), 1994.
  • Amsterdam, J. Cape (London), 1997; and Doubleday (New York City),1998.
  • Enduring Love, J. Cape (London) and Doubleday (New York City), 1998.
  • Atonement, Doubleday (New York City), 2002.
  • Writings; Short Story Collections
  • First Love, Last Rites (includes "Cocker at the Theatre," "Butterflies," "First Love, Last Rites," "Disguises," "Last Day of Summer," "Homemade," "Solid Geometry," and "Conversations with a Cupboardman"), Random House (New York City), 1975.
  • In Between the Sheets and Other Stories (includes "Pornography," "Reflections of a Kept Ape," "Two Fragments: Saturday and Sunday, March 199_," "DeadAs They Come," "In Between the Sheets," "To and Fro," and "Psychopolis"), Simon & Schuster, 1978.
  • The Short Stories, J. Cape (London), 1995..
  • Writings; Other
  • Conversations with a Cupboardman (radio play based on his story), BBC, 1975.
  • The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television(includes Jack Flea's Celebration, Solid Geometry, and The Imitation Game), J.
  • Cape, 1981, Houghton, 1982.
  • Lyricist, Or Shall We Die: An Oratorio, recorded by His Master's Voice, 1984.
  • Author of the book A Move Abroad, 1989. Work represented in anthologies, including Venus Envy: On the Womb and the Bomb, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Chatto & Windus (London), 1990. Contributor to periodicals, including New American Review, New Review, Transatlantic Review, and Tri-Quarterly.
  • Other Works
  • Adaptations: The Comfort of Strangers was adapted for film by Harold Pinter and released by Skouras, 1991. The Cement Garden was alsoadapted for the screen, 1993.

Further Reference

Books:

  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2000.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14: British Novelists since 1960, Gale, 1983.
  • McEwan, Ian, Black Dogs, J. Cape, 1992.
Periodicals:
  • Bomb, fall, 1990, p. 14.
  • Encounter, June, 1975; January, 1979.
  • Globe and Mail (Toronto), April 16, 1988; June 2, 1990.
  • Listener, April 12, 1979, p. 526.
  • London, August, 1975; February, 1979.
  • Monthly Film Bulletin, June, 1983.
  • New Statesman and Society, May 11, 1990, pp. 18, 35.
  • New York Times, November 21, 1978; August 14, 1979; June 15, 1981; September 26, 1987; May 29, 1990.
  • Publishers Weekly, September 11, 1987, p. 68.
  • Spectator, June 27, 1992, p. 32.
  • Time, November 17, 1978; September 21, 1987.
  • Times (London), February 16, 1981; October 8, 1981; June 27, 1987; May 8, 1990.
  • Times Saturday Review, December 8, 1990, p. 16.
  • Vanity Fair, June, 1990.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, autumn, 1975.