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Martin Amis

Martin AmisAKA Martin Louis Amis

Born: 25-Aug-1949
Birthplace: Oxford, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Rachel Papers

Father: Kingsley Amis (author)
Mother: Hilary Bardwell
Mother: Elizabeth Jane Howard (stepmother, novelist)
Wife: Antonia Phillips (m. 1984, div. 1996, two sons, two daughters)
Wife: Isabel Fonseca (m. 1998)

    University: Exeter College, Oxford University (1971)

    The Observer Book Reviewer (and etc.), 1971-79
    The New Statesman Literary Editor (1977-79)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    A High Wind in Jamaica (16-Jun-1965)

Author of books:
The Rachel Papers (1973, novel)
Dead Babies (1975, novel)
Success (1978, novel)
Other People: A Mystery Story (1981, novel)
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide (1982, nonfiction)
Money: A Suicide Note (1984, novel)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986, essays)
Einstein's Monsters (1987, short stories)
London Fields (1989, novel)
Time's Arrow, or the Nature of the Offense (1991, novel)
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993, essays)
The Information (1995, novel)
Night Train (1997, novel)
Heavy Water: and Other Stories (1998, short stories)
Experience (2000, memoir)
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (2001, essays)
Kobo the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002, nonfiction)
Yellow Dog (2003, novel)



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