His close relationship with the journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died of oesophageal cancer in 2011, was well-documented. Published in 1973 while he was working at the Times Literary Supplement, it follows the romantic exploits of a teenage boy in London before university and - like his father's debut novel - won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction.Īmis was a contemporary of other celebrated writers like James Fenton, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan. The younger Amis followed in his father's footsteps after graduating from Oxford University with his first novel The Rachel Papers. He authored 14 novels and several non-fiction books, and is widely considered one of the most influential writers of his era.īorn in 1949 in Oxford, he was the son of the novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis. He died of oesophageal cancer at his Florida home, the New York Times said, quoting his wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca.Īmis is best known for his 1984 novel Money and the 1989 work London Fields. Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73.
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