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    Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is an English novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (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.[2] The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945

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    Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is an English novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (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.[2] The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945

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    Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is an English novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (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.[2] The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945

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    MartinAmisWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia

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    MartinLouisAmis(born25August1949)isan
    Englishnovelist.HisbestknownnovelsareMoney
    (1984)andLondonFields(1989).Hehasreceivedthe
    JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrizeforhismemoir
    ExperienceandhasbeenlistedfortheBookerPrize
    twicetodate(shortlistedin1991forTime'sArrow
    andlonglistedin2003forYellowDog).Amisserved
    astheProfessorofCreativeWritingattheCentrefor
    NewWritingattheUniversityofManchesteruntil
    2011.[2]TheTimesnamedhimin2008asoneofthe
    50greatestBritishwriterssince1945.[3]
    Amis'sworkcentresontheapparentexcessesoflate
    capitalistWesternsociety,whoseperceivedabsurdity
    heoftensatirisesthroughgrotesquecaricaturehehas
    beenportrayedasamasterofwhattheNewYork
    Timescalled"thenewunpleasantness".[4]Inspiredby
    SaulBellow,VladimirNabokov,andJamesJoyce,as
    wellasbyhisfatherKingsleyAmis,Amishimself
    wentontoheavilyinfluencemanysuccessfulBritish
    novelistsofthelate20thandearly21stcenturies,
    includingWillSelfandZadieSmith.[1]

    Contents
    1Earlylife
    2Earlywriting
    3Maincareer

    MartinAmis

    MartinAmisatthe2014TexasBookFestival
    Born

    MartinLouisAmis
    25August1949
    Oxford,England,United
    Kingdom[1]

    Education

    MA(Oxon)

    Almamater

    WestminsterSchool
    ExeterCollege,Oxford

    Notablework(s)

    TheRachelPapers(1973),
    Money(1984),LondonFields
    (1989)

    Spouse(s)

    AntoniaPhillips(19841993)
    IsabelFonseca(1996present)

    Children

    Delilah(1976),Louis(1985),
    Jacob(1986),Fernanda
    (1996),Clio(1999)

    Parents

    KingsleyAmis(father),Hilary
    AnnBardwell(mother)

    Relatives

    PhilipAmis(brother),Sally
    Amis(sister)

    3.11980sand1990s
    3.22000s
    3.32010s
    3.4Otherworks
    4Currentlife
    4.1Politicalopinions
    4.2Agnosticism
    4.3Recentemployment
    5Bibliography
    5.1Novels
    5.2Collections
    5.3Screenplays
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis

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