Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs , both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam , winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time , winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.