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Amis, Martin 1949- (Martin Louis Amis)

PERSONAL:

Born August 25, 1949, in Oxford, England; son of Kingsley William (a writer) and Hilary Amis; married Antonia Phillips, 1984 (divorced); married Isabel Fonseca, c: 1996; children: (from an affair with Lamorna Heath) Delilah Seale, (first marriage) Louis and Jacob, (second marriage) Fernanda and Clio. Education: Exeter College, Oxford, B.A. (with honors), 1971.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England; Uruguay. Agent—The Wylie Agency, 250 W. 57th St., Ste. 2114, New York, NY 10107.

CAREER:

Writer, novelist, and essayist. Times Literary Supplement, London, England, editorial assistant, 1972-75, fiction and poetry editor, 1974; New Statesman, London, assistant literary editor, 1975-77, literary editor, 1977-79; writer, 1980—; Observer, London, special writer, 1980—. University of Manchester, England, professor of creative writing, 2007—. Actor in the film A High Wind in Jamaica, 1965.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Somerset Maugham Award, National Book League, 1974, for The Rachel Papers; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography,

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Martin Amis

English novelist (1949–2023)

For the landscape and documentary photographer, see Martin Amis (photographer).

Sir Martin Louis AmisFRSL^[1] (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011.^[2] In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.^[3]

Amis's work centres on the excesses of "late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness".^[4] He was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Na

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Martin (Louis) Amis Biography

The buzz surrounding the release of his much anticipated memoir Experience has confirmed Martin Amis's standing as one of the most important contemporary English-language writers. Published in May 2000, Experience is a candid self-portrait of 51-year-old Amis's life, much of which has been played out in public, particularly in the press in his native Britain: his leaving his wife of almost 10 years and his two sons to take up with an American woman; his firing his agent and wife of best friend Julian Barnes in order to secure a more lucrative—some would say extravagant—advance for The Information; his torturous bout of dental reconstruction; and—most importantly—his complex relationship with his most famous critic and one of England's most important writers of the postwar era, his father Kingsley.

In fact, Amis's fiction has often been defined by its relationship to—and difference from—that of his father. Whereas Kingsley's writing adheres to the aesthetic conventions of realism which aspire to narrative obj