Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He spent much of his childhood in the Far East, Germany and North Africa where his father, an officer in the army, was posted.

Selected by Ian McEwan, ... French children watching a puppet show in Paris, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.

Ian McEwan was born in 1948, the same year as the hero/anti-hero of his astonishing new novel, “Lessons” (Knopf, 448 pp., ★★★★ out of 4 stars).. It tells the story of a precocious boy ...

Ian McEwan: A writer's life 07:16 "A secret, I think, can be fatal," said acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. ... The "vulnerabilty of children" is a theme he's explored before.

In Ian McEwan's expansive new novel, a man assesses his life's trajectory from childhood to old age, focusing especially on what he considers his wrong turns and disappointments.

Rape, incest, pornography, rotting corpses, bestiality, child abuse, more child abuse (the vulnerability of children is one of McEwan’s great topics), murder, murderous fantasies—this is the ...

Readers drawn to Ian McEwan’s gorgeous novel “Atonement” 20 years ago may have drifted away from the writer’s bizarre recent work. His last three books have been minor, fantastical stories ...

Ian McEwan is known for his grand ambitions, but "Lessons" might be his first epic novel. ... Roland notes it would be a shame to turn a pleasurable children’s book into a lesson.

September sees the publication of "Lessons" by the Booker Prize-winning writer Ian McEwan. ... Indeed, in books like "Saturday" and "The Children Act" (2014), ...

Ian McEwan has a new novel on the horizon. On Feb. 7, Alfred A. Knopf announced the acclaimed author’s latest novel, What We Can Know, ... On Chesil Beach and The Children Act. ...

Best in Children’s Books. The 10 Best Books of 2024. This copy is for your personal, ... Readers of Ian McEwan have by now learned to approach his fiction with their guards up.