Ian McEwan was born in 1948 and lives in Gloucestershire, England. He is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels, as well as The Daydreamer, a set of stories for children. He has written many screenplays as well as the libretto for an opera. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, 1975 won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, Solar, and Sweet Tooth. His novels On Chesil Beach and The Children Act, were recently adapted by him for the screen. 2019 saw the publication of two new works: a novel about Artificial Intelligence, Machines Like Me, and a satirical political novella, The Cockroach.