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Sir Martin Louis Amis FRSL (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 ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died May 19, 2023, Lake Worth, Florida, U.S.) was an English satirist known for his virtuoso storytelling technique and his dark views of contemporary English society. As a youth, Amis, the son of the novelist Kingsley Amis, thrived literarily on a permissive home atmosphere and a “passionate street life.”
May 20, 2023 · Martin Amis in 2012. He wrote 15 novels, a memoir and books of nonfiction. He was also known for his swagger, his good looks and his involvements with some of the most watched young women of his era.
May 20, 2023 · Martin Amis, a giant of British fiction in the late 20th century, died on Friday at 73. As the former New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani wrote of Amis in her review of his 2000 memoir ...
May 20, 2023 · Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73. He died of oesophageal cancer at his Florida home, the New York Times said, quoting his wife, the ...
May 20, 2023 · Martin Louis Amis was born on August 25 1949, the second son of Kingsley and Hilly Amis. His father was a university lecturer who later became a major novelist.
May 20, 2023 · Martin Amis was a novelist, essayist, memoirist, critic, and stylist supreme who, for 40 years, bestrode the world of UK publishing: first by defining what it meant to be a literary wunderkind by releasing his incredible first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), for Jonathan Cape at just 24; influencing a generation of prose stylists; and often summing up entire eras with his books, perhaps most notably with his 1984 novel, Money.He continually engaged with current events and the contemporary ...
May 24, 2023 · Where the book was going, he hoped, was on a long shelf of titles by Martin Amis, with challenging jackets and good blurbs on their backs. There had been 14 novels, eight non-fiction collections ...
May 21, 2023 · British author Martin Amis, best known for the 1984 novel, “Money,” and 1989’s “London Fields,” has died, his publisher Penguin Books UK announced Saturday. He was 73.
May 26, 2023 · Remembering Martin Amis, author of the London Trilogy novels The British novelist, who died May 19, was a member of one of England's most famous writing families. His novels included Money, London ...
