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Martin Amis
Martin Amis Martin Amis was born in Oxford, Great Britain in 1949.

Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1974. His trilogy of novels set in London begins with Money: A Suicide Note, continues with London Fields, and concludes with The Information. His 1991 novel Time's Arrow, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

Amis is also the author of the autobiography Experience, the nonfiction work about communism in the 20th century, Koba the Dread, essay collections The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America, Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions, and The War Against Cliché, and two short-story collections, Einstein's Monsters and Heavy Water and Other Stories.

He regularly contributes to The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New York Times.

 
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Wednesday, April 26 at 8:00
Faith & Reason: Writers Speak

Thursday, April 27 at 3:00
Conversation: Martin Amis & Patrick McGrath

Thursday, April 27 at 10:00
An Evening Without...
Amis Online
Read the first chapter of Amis's novel Night Train. >>More

Read his short story "Career Move." >>More

Read "Off the Page: Martin Amis," a transcript of the Washington Post Online conversation. >>More
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