ABOUT
Best known for such acclaimed novels as London Fields, The Information, and Money, he became famous for his grotesquely satirical literary portraits of Western capitalism.His debut novel, The Rachel Papers, received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award.His work greatly influenced that of younger British fiction writer Zadie Smith.
BEFORE FAMEAfter graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, he worked first for The Times Literary Supplement, and later for The New Statesman.
PERSONAL LIFEIn response to the death of his father, fellow writer Kingsley Amis, he published a James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning memoir, Experience.
Famous QuotesSeveral people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something Ive been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? Ive written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?
Novelist Martin Amis were born on Thursday, birthstone is Peridot, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of Ox, it is 228 days until Martin Amis next birthday.