J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as ''The Drowned World'' (1962), but later courted political controversy with the short-story collection ''The Atrocity Exhibition'' (1970), which includes the story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968), and the novel ''Crash'' (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel ''Empire of the Sun'', a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai; three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. The novelist's journey from youth to mid-age is chronicled, with fictional inflections, in ''The Kindness of Women'' (1991), and in the autobiography ''Miracles of Life'' (2008). Some of Ballard's early novels have been adapted as films, including ''Crash'' (1996), directed by David Cronenberg, and ''High-Rise'' (2015), directed by Ben Wheatley, an adaptation of the 1975 novel.
From the distinct nature of the literary fiction of J. G. Ballard arose the adjective ''Ballardian'', defined as: "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments". The ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes the novelist Ballard as preoccupied with "Eros, Thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies". Provided by Wikipedia
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