Martin Amis

Sir Martin Amis FRSL
Amis in 2014
Born	Martin Louis Amis (1949-08-25)25 August 1949 Oxford, England
Died	19 May 2023(2023-05-19) (aged 73) Lake Worth Beach, Florida, US
Pen name	Henry Tilney
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Notable works	The Rachel Papers (1973) Money (1984) London Fields (1989)
Notable awards	Knight Bachelor 2023
Spouse	Antonia Phillips ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1993)​ Isabel Fonseca ​ (m. 1996)​
Children	5
Parents	Kingsley Amis Hilary Kilmarnock
Relatives	Sally Amis (sister)
Martin Amis's voice Recorded April 2010 from the BBC Radio 3 programme Night Waves

Sir Martin Louis Amis FRSL^[1] (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English writer best known for 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.

Amis's work centres on the excesses of "late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis. Amis influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.

A life-long smoker, Amis died from oesophageal cancer at his house in the US state of Florida in 2023. The New York Times wrote after his death: "To come of reading age in the last three decades of the 20th century – from the oil embargo through the fall of the Berlin Wall, all the way to 9/11 – was to live, it now seems clear, in the Amis Era."^[2]