Martin Amis, British author of dark comedy novels, dies at 73
Martin Amis, British author of dark comedy novels, has died at the age of 73, his publisher announced on Twitter on Saturday.
Penguin Books said Friends “leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on Britain’s cultural landscape, and will be greatly missed”.
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Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Fla., The New York Times reported earlier, citing his wife, Isabel Fonseca, as saying the cause was esophageal cancer.
LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 25: English writer Martin Amis poses at his home on September 25, 1987 in London, England. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
Amis, the author of 14 novels including ‘Money: A Suicide Note’, ‘London Fields’ and ‘Time’s Arrow’, was named one of Britain’s 50 best writers since 1945 in 2008 and twice listed for the Booker Prize .
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Amis, often called one of the most innovative voices of his generation, was the son of the late British author Kingsley Amis, the subject of his 2000 memoir “Experience”. He moved to the United States in 2011.
CORAL GABLES, FL – OCTOBER 26: Author Martin Amis discusses and signs copies of his new book ‘The Zone of Interest’ at Books and Books on October 26, 2014 in Coral Gables, Florida. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic)
Friends’ first novel “The Rachel Papers” was published when he was 23 years old. He worked as editor of the Times Literary Supplement and later as literary editor of The New Statesman.
Amis told Reuters in 2012 that he was most pleased with his then most recent novel “Lionel Asbo: State of England” and least pleased with its more famous predecessors “all the way down the line”.
CORAL GABLES, FL – OCTOBER 26: Author Martin Amis discusses and signs copies of his new book ‘The Zone of Interest’ at Books and Books on October 26, 2014 in Coral Gables, Florida. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic)
He said that over time, “what happens is your genius gets weaker and your talent gets stronger.”
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In a 2020 interview with The New York Times, Friends said, “We read literature to have a good time. Not an easy time, necessarily, but not a hard time and not a bad time.”
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