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- Birth name: James Graham Ballard
- Born: November 15, 1930
- Died: April 19, 2009, age 78
- Birthplace: Shanghai International Settlement, China
- Nationality: British
- Former Japanese prisoner of war at Lunghua Camp, ChinaTelegraph: JG Ballard Obituary (April 19, 2009)
- Formal education: Kings College, Cambridge, no degree obtainedTelegraph: JG Ballard Obituary (April 19, 2009)
- Member of the Royal Air Force for two yearsTelegraph: JG Ballard Obituary (April 19, 2009)
- Wife Mary passed away in 1964Telegraph: JG Ballard Obituary (April 19, 2009)
- Raised his 3 children without remarryingTelegraph: JG Ballard Obituary (April 19, 2009)
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Genre-defying author J.G Ballard died on April 19, 2009, after a years-long battle with prostate cancer. Ballard was diagnosed with advanced stage prostate cancer in 2006.
Ballard's bleak, semi-autobiographical meditations on the 20th century were often categorized as science fiction. His acclaimed Empire of the Sun was the basis for the multiple-Oscar-nominated 1987 Steven Spielberg film.BBC News: Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78 (April 19, 2009) In addition to his 17 novels, J.G. Ballard also published 23 short stories and two fictional autobiographies, Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women.
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Novels
- The Wind From Nowhere - 1961
- The Drowned World - 1962
- The Burning World - 1964
- The Crystal World - 1966
- The Atrocity Exhibition - 1969
- Crash - 1973
- Concrete Island - 1974
- High Rise - 1975
- The Unlimited Dream Company - 1979
- Hello America - 1981
- Empire of the Sun - 1984
- The Day of Creation - 1987
- Running Wild - 1988
- The Kindness of Women - 1991
- Rushing to Paradise - 1994
- Cocaine Nights - 1996
- Super-Cannes - 2000
- Millennium People - 2003
- Kingdom Come - 2006
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