# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-g-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:27:29.553Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/j-g-ballard"
name: "J. G. Ballard"
slug: "j-g-ballard"
description: "James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story \"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan\", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists."
tagline: "British novelist (1930–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grave_of_J._G._Ballard_in_Kensal_Green_Cemetery.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1930-11-15"
deathDate: "2009-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump