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J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J.G. Ballard died in 2009.

John Gray is a therapist and author. His books include the best-selling Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Audio, Men Women and Relationships and Mars and Venus in the Bedroom. He has been conducting seminars in major cities for twenty years. He lives in northern California, with his wife Bonnie and their three children.