Martin Louis Amis, a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter, was born on August 25, 1949. Oxford is where Englishman Amis was born. His mother, Hilary Ann Bardwell, was a Kingston upon Thames native and the son of renowned English author Sir Kingsley Amis.
Money (1984) and London Fields (1989) are the two of his books that are the most well-known. He appeared on the Booker Prize shortlist twice (for Time’s Arrow in 1991 and Yellow Dog in 2003), and for his autobiography Experience, he received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. From 2001 until 2011, Amis lectured in creative writing at the University of Manchester’s Center for New Writing. He was ranked among the top fifty British novels since 1945 by The Times in 2008.
His first book, The Rachel Papers, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, was written in the north London family home, Lemmons. It tells the story of a smart, arrogant teenager and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before entering college. It is the most traditional of his writings, and it was adapted into an unsuccessful cult film. Amis acknowledges the story’s personal nature.
Along with these works, Amis also produced two collections of short stories (Einstein’s Monsters and Heavy Water), five volumes of collected journalism and criticism (The Moronic Inferno, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, The War Against Cliché, The Second Plane, and The Rub of Time), and a user’s guide for an arcade video game from the 1980s with a space theme (Invasion of the Space Invaders), which he later denied.
Martin Amis’s cause of death: How did Martin Amis die?
Martin Amis, a distinguished British novelist of his time, went yesterday at the age of 73. His death was brought on by oesophagal cancer.
