Background
Amis, Martin Louis was born on August 25, 1949 in Oxford, England. Son of Kingsley and Hilary (Bardwell) Amis.
(In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the ...)
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel -- a girl who sorely tests the mettle of his cynicism when he finds himself falling in love with her.
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Amis, Martin Louis was born on August 25, 1949 in Oxford, England. Son of Kingsley and Hilary (Bardwell) Amis.
Bachelor in English with honors, Oxford University, 1971.
Editorial assistant Times Literature Supplement, London, 1972-1975. Assistant literary editor New Statesman, 1975-1979. Special writer The Observer, since 1980, The Guardian, since 1997.
Professor creative writing Manchester Center for New Writing, University Manchester, since 2007.
The Rachel Papers (1973),
Dead Babies (1975),
Success (1978),
Other People (1981),
Money (1984),
London Fields (1989),
Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offence (1991),
The Information (1995),
Night Train (1997),
Yellow Dog (2003),
House of Meetings (2006),
The Pregnant Widow (2010),
The State of England: Lionel Asbo, Lotto Lout (2012),
Einstein's Monsters (1987),
Two Stories (1994),
God's Dice (1995),
Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998),
Amis Omnibus (omnibus) (1999),
The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000),
Vintage Amis (2004),
Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982),
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986),
Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993),
Experience (2000),
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001),
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) (about Joseph Stalin and Russian History),
The Second Plane (2008).
(In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the ...)
Married Antonia Phillips, 1984 (div. 1996); 5 children; Married Isabel Fonscea, 1998. 2 children.