J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a
businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his
family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel,
The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun
won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir
Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in
2009.
Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby was born in Paris in 1952. In 1996 he
set up ALIS (Association du Locked-In Syndrome). Bauby died on 9
March 1997. He leaves a wife and two children.
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in
British literature. The prize-winning author of nine novels, three
biographies and one collection of short stories, she died in
2000.
Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh
City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of
essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort
Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as
one of the best American writers of our age and has won many
awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place
of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and
the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott
Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
Alexander Masters is an author and homeless worker. He is the
author of Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Genius in My Basement.
Stuart: a Life Backwards, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the
winner of the Guardian First Book Award and Whitbread Book of the
Year 2005 in the Biography category. He recently adapted Stuart: a
Life Backwards for a BBC film. Alexander Masters lives in
London.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which
was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which
won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection
The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the
world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New
York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United
States and Nigeria.
Tim O’Brien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester
College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading
writers of his generation in 1973 when he published ‘If I Die In A
Combat Zone’, the compelling account of his own tour of duty in
Vietnam, and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam
War has produced.
Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The
Shipping News, Barkskins and the story collection Close Range. Her
many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the
Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award.
Her story ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ which originally appeared in The
New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives
in New Hampshire.
Lorna Sage’s books include ‘Women in the House of Fiction’ (1992),
‘The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English’ (1999), a short
monograph on Angela Carter, and ‘Bad Blood’, which won the 2000
Whitbread Biography Award and became a number one bestseller. She
died in January 2001.
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