Biography
Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. He was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire. He graduated from the University of Sussex in 1970 and received an MA from the University of East Anglia in 1971.
His early publications include the short-story collections First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978), followed by novels such as The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981). He wrote the television play The Imitation Game for the BBC series Play for Today in 1980.
McEwan is known for the novels Atonement (2001), adapted as a film in 2007, and On Chesil Beach (2007), which he adapted as a screenplay for the 2018 film. Other novels include Amsterdam (1998), which won the Booker Prize, The Child in Time (1987), Enduring Love (1997) and The Children Act (2014).
