Martin Amis

Biography

Sir Martin Louis Amis was a celebrated English novelist, essayist, and memoirist, 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. As a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester, he was named one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008, solidifying his legacy as a satirist of late capitalist Western society.