McEwan

British  

/ məˈkjuːən /

noun

1. Ian ( Russell ). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)

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Example Sentences

In Ian McEwan’s “What We Can Know,” war, sea-level rise and other upheavals have left humanity scraping by and unsure of itself.

From The Wall Street Journal

With a tale about a scholar from a future century investigating the fate of a poem written in our own era, Ian McEwan paints an arresting picture of one possible destination for global civilization—and in the process delivers a thought-provoking novel about historical memory and the endurance of culture.

From The Wall Street Journal

Our 10 recommended books for September include an ambitious new novel from Ian McEwan, the latest from Elizabeth Gilbert and a photo-packed book from NBA great Steph Curry.

From Los Angeles Times

Biographers from 2000 onward, McEwan writes, are “heirs to more than a century of what the Blundy era airily called ‘the cloud’ ever expanding like a giant summer cumulus, though, of course, it simply consisted of data-storage machines.”

From Los Angeles Times

But just when it seems as if Metcalfe, after a long and arduous journey across land and water, has discovered something significant, McEwan drops the curtain on that story, and rewinds the narrative 107 years, back to Vivien Blundy and her story.

From Los Angeles Times