Martin Amis Dies: Author Of ‘London Fields’ And ‘The Information’ Was 73
deadline.comMartin Amis, whose 15 novels were must-read for British fiction lovers, died Friday at home in Lake Worth, Florida of esophageal cancer, his wife confirmed.
He was 73. Amis’s best-known work is a trilogy of novels: Money: A Suicide Note (1985), London Fields (1990) and The Information (1995).
He also had a memoir, Experience, (2000). Amis’s father was author Kingsley Amis, part of the group of writers known as the Angry Young Men in the 1950s.
He was best known for Lucky Jim. (1954). The two had a rivalry, riven by political differences. Yet Martin Amis acknowledged that his father’s prominence played a role in his own success. “I’d be in a very different position now if my father had been a schoolteacher,” Amis told The Sunday Times of London in 2014. “I’ve been delegitimized by heredity.
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