His mother was Edna (1905–1998), née Johnstone. Life Shanghai īallard's novelette "The Time Tombs" was the cover story on the March 1963 issue of Ifīallard's father, James (1901–1966), was a chemist at a Manchester-based textile firm, the Calico Printers' Association, and became chairman and managing director of its subsidiary in Shanghai, the China Printing and Finishing Company. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry describes Ballard's work as being occupied with " Eros, Thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies". Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments". The literary distinctiveness of Ballard's fiction has given rise to the adjective " Ballardian", defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. Several of his earlier works have been adapted into films, including David Cronenberg's controversial 1996 adaptation of Crash and Ben Wheatley's 2015 adaptation of Ballard's 1975 novel High-Rise. The author's journey from youth to mid-age would be chronicled, with fictional inflections, in The Kindness of Women (1991) and in direct autobiography in Miracles of Life (2008).
In 1984, Ballard won broader recognition for his war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical account of a young British boy's experiences in Shanghai during Japanese occupation the story was adapted into a 1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg. He first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962), but later courted controversy for the experimental short story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which included the 1968 story " Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and the novel Crash (1973), a story about a renegade group of car crash fetishists. James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explored the relations between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass media.
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