About the Author

J.G. Ballard (15 November 1930 -- 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg.