Iain Banks

Iain Banks was born in Scotland, where he lived for the majority of his life. He wanted to be a writer from an early age, and after a series of unpublished attempts at science fiction in the late 1970s, he published his first novel, The Wasp Factory, at the age of thirty. Banks wrote twenty-seven novels during his lifetime, the last of which was published posthumously. He also wrote short stories, multiple books of nonfiction, and a posthumously published collection of poetry.