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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).
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 · Amis was born in Oxford, England, on August 25, 1949. His paternal grandfather was a clerk in the mustard business, but the literary family Martin grew up in knew no such ho-hum middle-class ...
May 20, 2023 · Martin Louis Amis was born on Aug. 25, 1949, in Oxford, England. He had an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Sally, who died in 2000. His mother was Hilary A. Bardwell, the daughter of ...
May 20, 2023 · The son of another renowned British novelist, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis was born in 1949 in Oxford, England and attended schools in the U.K., Spain and the U.S. before graduating from Oxford ...
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 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 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 ...
Martin Amis, the “literary agitator” behind acclaimed novels including London Fields, Money and The Information, has died aged 73.. The news of his death was announced by his wife, the writer ...
May 20, 2023 · Martin Louis Amis was born Aug. 25, 1949, in Oxford, England, and moved frequently as the marriage of his father and mother, Hilary Bardwell, began to come apart.
