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June 9, 2013 (59 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Iain Banks
Iain Banks is a Scottish author, writing mainstream novels like Iain Banks and science fiction like Iain M. Banks, adding the initials of his adopted middle name Menzies. After the success of The Wasp Factory, he started writing full-time. His first sci-fi book, Consider Phlebas, appeared in 1987, marking the beginning of the Culture series. His books have been adapted for theater, radio and television. In 2008, The Times included Banks in the list of "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In April 2013, Banks announced that he had incurable cancer and was unable to live more than a year. He passed away on June 9, 2013 .
Born16 February 1954, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
DiedJune 9, 2013, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Pen nameIain M. Banks
OccupationWriter
EducationUniversity of Stirling (BA)
GenreScience fiction, Literary fiction
SpouseBarbara Ann (Annie) Blackburn (20 March 1992 – 2007, divorced, died 2009), Adele Hartley (29 March 2013 – 9 June 2013, his death)

About Iain Banks

Novelist Iain Banks was born on February 16, 1954 in Scotland (He dies at the age of 59, on June 9, 2013).

Consider Phlebas, The Wasp Factory, and The Culture science fiction series are among the works of this acclaimed Scottish novelist.

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Iain Banks before becoming famous

Iain Banks was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1954 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

As the only child of a military officer father and a figure skater mother, he grew up in Fife, Scotland. When he was sixteen years old, he authored The Hungarian Lift-Jet, his first full-length work of fiction.

Achievement of Iain Banks

He studied at the University of Stirling in the early 1970s.

Iain Banks's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

From 1992 through 2009, he was married to Annie Blackburn. He married his second wife, Adele Hartley, just three months before dying of cancer at the age of fifty-nine.

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Novelist Isaac Asimov, a fellow science fiction writer, had an influence on him.

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Iain Banks Income & Net worth

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