Iain Banks

: January 5, 2024
: Novelist

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Iain Banks
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 16, 1954(1954-02-16)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2013-06-09
Birthplace	Dunfermline
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Iain Banks Biography

Name	Iain Banks
Birthday	Feb 16
Birth Year	1954
Place Of Birth	Dunfermline
Home Town	Scotland
Birth Country	United Kingdom
Birth Sign	Aquarius
Parents	Effie Banks, Robert Banks
Spouse	Adele Hartley , Annie Blackburn

Iain Banks is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom. An internationally acclaimed Scottish-born novelist, he is best known for his works The Wasp Factory and Consider Phlebas.

Influenced by the work of fellow scientist fiction writer He was influenced by the work of fellow science fiction writer Isaac Asimov., he was also influenced.

Banks decided to become a writer at the age of 11. He completed his first novel The Hungarian Lift-Jet at 16 and his second novel TTR (aka The Tashkent Rambler) during his first year at Stirling University in 1972. Though he considered himself primarily a science fiction author, his lack of success at being published as such led him to pursue mainstream fiction, resulting in his first published novel The Wasp Factory, which was published in 1984 when he was thirty. After the publication and success of The Wasp Factory, Banks began to write full-time. His editor at Macmillan, James Hale, advised him to write one book a year and Banks agreed to this schedule.

Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, to a mother who was a professional ice skater and a father who was an officer in the Admiralty. An only child, Banks lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth where his father was based. Banks’s family then moved to Gourock due to the requirements of his father’s work. When someone introduced him to science fiction by giving him Kemlo and the Zones of Silence, he continued reading the Kemlo series which made him want to write science fiction himself. After attending Gourock and Greenock High Schools, Banks studied English, philosophy and psychology at the University of Stirling (1972–1975).

From 1992 to 2009, his marriage to Annie Blackburn lasted. His second marriage to Annie Blackburn lasted from 1992 to 2009. He died at fifty-nine years old from cancer.

Iain Banks Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Novelist
House	Living in own house.

Iain Banks is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Iain Banks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As the only child of a soldier father and figure skater mom, he grew up in Fife (Scotland). At sixteen years old, he wrote The Hungarian Lift-Jet his first fiction work.

He attended the University of Stirling in the 1970s.

Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (/ˈ m ɪ ŋ ɪ z / ( listen ) ).

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Who is Iain Banks Dating?

According to our records, Iain Banks married to Adele Hartley , Annie Blackburn. As of December 1, 2023, Iain Banks’s is not dating anyone.

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Banks was the subject of The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks South Bank Show (1997), a television documentary that examined his mainstream writing, and was also an in-studio guest for the final episode of Marc Riley’s Rocket Science radio show, broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Facts & Trivia

Iain Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Iain Banks celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year.

Banks was involved in the theatre production The Curse of Iain Banks that was written by Maxton Walker and was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in

Banks collaborated with the play’s soundtrack composer Gary Lloyd frequently, including on a collection of songs they co-composed in tribute to the fictional band ‘Frozen Gold’ from Banks’s novel ‘Espedair Street’. Lloyd also composed the score for a spoken word and musical production of the Banks novel The Bridge which Banks himself voiced and featured a cast of forty musicians (released on cd by Codex Records in 1996). Lloyd recorded Banks for inclusion in the play as a disembodied voice appearing as himself in one of the cast member’s dreams. Lloyd explained his collaboration with Banks on their first versions of ‘Espedair Street’ (subsequent versions are dated from between 2005 and 2013) in a Guardian article prior to the opening of The Curse of Iain Banks:

Top Facts about Iain Banks

Iain Banks was a Scottish writer born in 1954.
He wrote both literary and science fiction novels.
His most famous book is “The Wasp Factory”.
Banks published 29 books during his career.
He won several awards for his writing, including the British Science Fiction Association Award.
Banks passed away in 2013 from gallbladder cancer.
He was known for his dark humor and political commentary.
Banks was also a musician and played in a band called “Dreams of Tall Buildings”.
His novel “The Crow Road” was adapted into a BBC television series.
Banks’ final novel, “The Quarry”, was published posthumously in 2013.

Which Iain M. Banks book to read first?

Two: The Player of Games This makes it a good starting point for the Iain M Banks neophyte, and also the first book I recommend to non-science fiction readers curious about the genre.

Is Iain M. Banks dead?

June 9, 2013

What order should I read the Culture series?

The Culture novels are all stand-alone stories separated from one another by decades and centuries of time and thousands of light-years of space, so you can pretty much read them in whatever order you wish.