Iain Banks

Iain Banks was a Scottish writer who published mainstream fiction under his own name and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. He is best known for The Wasp Factory, his 1984 debut, a dark novel about a troubled teenager on a remote Scottish island, which has sold over a million copies. His science fiction began with Consider Phlebas in 1987, the first of the ten-novel Culture series, and he also wrote The Crow Road, a coming-of-age novel. Banks died in 2013 at the age of 59.