Martin Amis, the acclaimed author, died 19 May, 2023. He was 73.
Amis was best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and had been listed for the Booker Prize twice (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.
He was born 25 Aug, 1949, son of the writer Sir Kingsley Amis, CBE (1922-1995), and his first wife the former Hilary Ann Bardwell (1928-2010). His parents, who wed in 1948, and divorced when Martin was 12. His mother, Hilly, later married as her 3rd husband, 18 February, 1977, Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock (1927-2009).
He married firstly, 1984 (div 1993), Antonia Phillips; married secondly, 1996, Isabel Fonseca (born 1961), and American-Uruguayan writer. He leaves two sons from his first marriage, two daughters from his second marriage, and a daughter from his relationship with the late Lamorna Seale.
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