McEwan

British  

/ məˈkjuːən /

noun

1. Ian ( Russell ). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)

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Example Sentences

Film and television adaptations of Christie’s iconic sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple abound, but these two ITV series, which star, respectively, David Suchet and Geraldine McEwan and then Julia McKenzie, are the most comprehensive, spiritually faithful and, quite frankly, best.

From Los Angeles Times

Much of the speculation about the poem’s whereabouts centers on a dinner party that allows McEwan to flash his tail feathers in describing a late-capitalist tableau of quail and ceps, anchovies and red wine, high-minded conversation and low lamplight.

From Los Angeles Times

Supt Joanne McEwan of Police Scotland describes the tactic as preventative, intelligence-led and "fair, proportionate and legal."

From BBC

In Ian McEwan’s “What We Can Know,” war, sea-level rise and other upheavals have left humanity scraping by and unsure of itself.

From The Wall Street Journal

With a tale about a scholar from a future century investigating the fate of a poem written in our own era, Ian McEwan paints an arresting picture of one possible destination for global civilization—and in the process delivers a thought-provoking novel about historical memory and the endurance of culture.

From The Wall Street Journal