Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for J. G. Ballard across 6 places, from 1945 to 2008.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 to 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place J. G. Ballard is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
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1945year
Plymouthattested“I see religion as a key to all sorts of mysteries that surround the human consciousness." In late 1945, Ballard, his mother and his sister returned on SS Arawa to England, where they lived in Plymouth and he attended The Leys School in C…”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1945year
Englandattested“I see religion as a key to all sorts of mysteries that surround the human consciousness." In late 1945, Ballard, his mother and his sister returned on SS Arawa to England, where they lived in Plymouth and he attended The Leys School in C…”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1945year
Cambridgeattested“I see religion as a key to all sorts of mysteries that surround the human consciousness." In late 1945, Ballard, his mother and his sister returned on SS Arawa to England, where they lived in Plymouth and he attended The Leys School in C…”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1949year
King's College, Cambridgeattested“In 1949, he studied medicine at King's College, Cambridge, with the intention of becoming a psychiatrist.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1955 to 1956period
Englandattested“In 1955, Ballard left the RAF and returned to England, where he met and married Helen Mary Matthews, who was a secretary at the Daily Express newspaper; the first of three Ballard children was born in 1956.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1960 to 2009period
Sheppertonattested“In 1960, the Ballard family moved to Shepperton, Surrey, where he lived till his death in 2009.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
October 2008month
Frankfurt Book Fairattested“In October 2008, before his death, Ballard's literary agent, Margaret Hanbury, brought an outline for a book by Ballard with the working title Conversations with My Physician: The Meaning, if Any, of Life to the Frankfurt Book Fair.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
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May 1951month
Cambridgementioned“In his second year at Cambridge, in May 1951, the short story "The Violent Noon", a Hemingway pastiche, won a crime-story competition and was published in the Varsity newspaper.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1954year
Moose Jawmentioned“In early 1954, Ballard joined the Royal Air Force and was assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force flight-training base in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1957 to 1965period
Londonmentioned“Briefly attending the 1957 World Science Fiction Convention in London, Ballard left disillusioned and demoralised by the type and quality of the science-fiction writing he encountered, and did not write another story for a year; however,…”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
1973year
Sheppertonmentioned“Those interests produced the novel Crash (1973), which features a protagonist named James Ballard, who lives in Shepperton, Surrey, England.”source: Wikipedia: J. G. Ballard
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