Martin Amis
Born 1949 · Died 2023
From Oxford, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction and nonfiction
Martin Louis Amis (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 from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Quotes
“The night was electric — the night was in italics.”
Success, Chapter 10 “When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.”
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America “I think it was Montherlant who said that happiness writes white: it doesn’t show up on the page.”
London Fields, Chapter 2 “Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
Einstein's Monsters “The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.”
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
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Books by Martin Amis in order
Books by Martin Amis in the order they were published, from The Rachel Papers (1973) to Inside Story (2020).
- 1The Rachel Papers
The Rachel Papers1973 - 2Dead Babies
Dead Babies1975 - 3Success
Success1978 - 4Other People
Other People1981 - 5Invasion of the Space Invaders
Invasion of the Space Invaders1982 - 6Money
Money1984 - 7The Moronic Inferno
The Moronic Inferno1986 - 8Einstein's Monsters
Einstein's Monsters1987 - 9Granta 25
Granta 251989 - 10London Fields
London Fields1989 - 11Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow1991 - 12Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions1993 - 13Splatterpunks II
Splatterpunks II1995 - 14The Information
The Information1995 - 15Night Train
Night Train1997 - 16Koba the Dread
Koba the Dread1998 - 17Second Plane
Second Plane1998 - 18The War Against Cliché
The War Against Cliché1998 - 19Experience
Experience2000 - 20Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog2003 - 21The Pregnant Widow
The Pregnant Widow2010 - 22Lionel Asbo
Lionel Asbo2012 - 23The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest2014 - 24Inside Story
Inside Story2020