British author MartinAmisSays, best known for the 1984 novel, “Money,” and 1989’s “London Fields,” has died, his publisher PenguinBooks UK announced. He was 73. 7NEWS
Amis’ wife, author Isabel Fonseca, told the New York Times that his cause of death was esophageal cancer.Amis is survived by Fonesca and his children – Louis, Jacob, Fernanda, Clio and Delilah.
“For so many people of my generation, Martin Amis was the one: the coolest, funniest, most quotable, most beautiful writer in the British literary firmament,” his former editor, Dan Franklin, said in a PenguinHis publishing company remembered him as a “novelist, essayist, memoirist, critic and stylist supreme who, for 40 years, bestrode the world of UK publishing,” the statement said.Amis was born August 25, 1949, in Oxford, England.
As a writer engaged with current events and key historical moments, Amis’ work tackled big issues and questions, Penguin said, including “The Second Plane,” his collection of essays and stories about the events of September 11, 2001.His 1991 novel, “Time’s Arrow,” and 2014’s “The Zone of Interest,” explored the Holocaust.
The graduate of Oxford University’s Exeter College served as a creative writing professor at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2011, the publishing house said.If you’d like to view this content, please adjust your
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