Martin Amis

Martin Amis was the author of two collections of short fiction and 13 novels including Money, London Fields, The Information, and The Pregnant Widow. He published his first novel, The Rachel Papers, at age 23. It won The Somerset Maugham award. In his 20s, he was an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and later the literary editor of The New Statesman. He was a special writer for The Observer newspaper and professor of creative writing at The Center for New Writing at the University of Manchester. Amis's seven works of non-fiction included Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, The Moronic Inferno and The War Against Cliche for which he won the National Book Critics Circle award. He was also the author of the acclaimed memoir, Experience, which described his relationship with his late father the author Sir Kingsley Amis. The Times named Martin Amis in 2008 as one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.