McEwan

McEwan is a Scottish surname meaning "son of Ewan." The name appears most often in reference to the British novelist Ian McEwan, known for literary fiction exploring dark psychological territory: Have you read any McEwan?

It's very McEwan—unsettling domesticity with something sinister underneath.

author

Ian

Scottish form of John

Solar · fiction · Booker Prize · literary · psychological · narrative · prose · contemporary · realism · storytelling

Scottish

clan

Related group sharing ancestry

Edinburgh · bagpipes · whisky · Gaelic · heritage · genealogy · ancestry · lineage · family · descendants

Categories
Opposites
literary style and approach

McEwanSalman Rushdie

Controversial novelist, knighted

David Foster Wallace · Thomas Pynchon · Gabriel García Márquez · P.G. Wodehouse · Terry Pratchett

genre positioning

McEwanStephen King

Bestselling horror fiction writer

James Patterson · Dan Brown · Danielle Steel · Nicholas Sparks · Tom Clancy

Phrases
Family

Ewan, Owen, Eugene

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G