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  1. Iain Banks
    Iain BanksScottish writer
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    Born16 February 1954 · Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
    Died9 June 2013 (aged 59) · Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
    EducationUniversity of Stirling (BA)
    SpouseAnnie Blackburn · (m. 1992; div. 2007) · Adele Hartley (m. 2013)
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    Author Iain Banks: In his own words
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    Author Iain Banks: In his own words
    BBCJun 9, 2013
    Early life

    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, he lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dock… See more

    Career

    Banks took up writing at the age of 11. He completed a first novel, The Hungarian Lift-Jet, at 16 and a second, TTR (also entitled The Tashkent Rambler) in his first year at Stirling University in 1972. Though he saw himself mai… See more

    Politics

    Banks's political stance has been termed "left of centre" and in 2002 he endorsed the Scottish Socialist Party.
    He was an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguish… See more

    Personal life

    Banks met his first wife Annie in London before the 1984 release of his first book. They lived in Faversham in the south of England, then split up in 1988. Banks returned to Edinburgh and dated another woman for … See more

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