Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960. He is the celebrated author of A Pale View of the Hills; An Artist of the Floating World (1986 Whitbread Award); The Remains of the Day, the Booker Prize winner that was adapted into an award-winning film; and When We Were Orphans. In 1995 he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l’ Ordre des Artes et Lettres by the French government. Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro's fifth novel.

The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture