Martin Amis died at his home in Florida his wife confirmed (Picture: Getty)
Martin Amis, the author of London Fields and Money, has died at the age of 73.
The writer died at his home in Lake Worth in Florida following a battle with cancer of the oesophagus, his wife Isabel Fonseca confirmed to The Guardian.
Amis was born in 1948 in Oxford and was the son of celebrated author Sir Kingsley Amis, who penned books including Lucky Jim and Jake’s Thing.
After studying English at the University of Oxford, he started a career in journalism at The Times Literary Supplement.
At the age of 21, he became the literary editor of the New Statesmen and then a feature writer for The Observer, before turning to fiction.
His first novel The Rachel Papers was written in 1973 and tells the story of an egotistical teenager’s romance with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university.
Amis was best known for writing the London trilogy (Picture: Getty)
He was also nominated for the Booker Prize (Picture: Getty)
Two years later, he followed that up with Dead Babies, about friends taking drugs in a country and house, and later Success.
His best-known novels are Money, London Fields and The Information, which are commonly referred to as the London trilogy and all explore the lives of middle-class debauched men in the capital.
Money is about an advertising man and would-be film director and was adapted into a BBC Radio drama with Nick Frost playing the main role.
Amis was a journalist before turning to fiction (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)
London Fields, meanwhile, describes the encounters between three main characters in London in 1999, as a climate disaster approaches.
Following his success, Amis demanded and subsequently obtained an alleged £500,000 advance for the 1995 novel The Information.
Amis continued writing in the noughties, including a memoir called Experience, Koba the Dread, about the crimes of Lenin and Stalin, and 2006’s novel Yellow Dog.
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More recently, he wrote The Zone of Interest about the Holocaust in 2014 and Inside Story in 2020.
Amis wrote era-defining novels.
