British author.
Born: 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK.
Died: 9 June 2013 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK (aged 59).
Banks was a Scottish author, who wrote fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His first novel "The Wasp Factory" appeared in 1984, and his first science fiction novel "Consider Phlebas" appeared in 1987.