LONDON - WRITER J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel 'Empire Of The Sun,' which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died on Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.
Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006. He had been ill 'for several years,' his agent Margaret Hanbury said in a statement announcing his death on Sunday, but she did not give the cause of death. It was not immediately clear where he died.
