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Biography

Name: Martin (Louis) Amis
Variant Name: Martin (Louis) Amis, Martin Louis Amis
Birth Date: August 25, 1949
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Martin (Louis) Amis
8,301 words, approx. 28 pages
It must be among Martin Amis's greatest fears that when his obituary is published in The Times of London it will begin, "The son of noted novelist Kingsley Amis. . . ." To follow in the shadow of such a literary institution would seem a daunting...
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Biography of Martin (Louis) Amis
2,596 words, approx. 9 pages
"Wit and talent and mordant perception ... Martin Amis is surely by far the most interesting of the new English writers," proclaims Dennis Potter on the dust jacket of Amis's latest novel Other People (1981), and certainly Amis is one of the most...


Quotations
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Martin Amis Quotes
6,490 words, approx. 22 pages
Martin Amis (born 25 August 1949 ) is a British novelist, essayist and short story writer. He is the son of Kingsley Amis . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986) 1.2 Einstein's Monsters (1987) 1.3 London Fields...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Martin Amis Information
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Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer. His works include such novels as London Fields (1989) and The Information...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Amy And Martin
08/29/1993: 715 words, approx. 2 pages
MIKE KELLY The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-29-1993 AMY AND MARTIN By MIKE KELLY Date: 08-29-1993, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Biographical: AMY BIEHL Amy Biehl's dream was coming true. This fall, she planned to enter Rutgers...
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Amis amiss.(Opinion)(Martin Amis)
06/01/2008: 1,528 words, approx. 5 pages
Long, long ago, in the years just preceding the Second World War--as Germany was overrunning Czechoslovakia and annexing Austria, and as Neville Chamberlain was preparing to travel to Munich to sort these things out--the novelist E.M. Forster wrote an essay called "What I...
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The New York Observer
Time's (Doomed) Person of the Year
11/17/2005: 315 words, approx. 1 pages
You know the drill. Every year it starts a little bit early: the press releases, the articles, the low level buzz—mostly amid the publicists who write the press releases and the reporters who dutifully recap them. Yes, it's Time's 'Person of Year' time again, and...
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The New York Observer
Mr. Bellow's Planet: Amis, McEwan Snatch Saul's Herring Soul
4/17/2005: 2,639 words, approx. 9 pages
One opened The New York Times expectantly, two days after Saul Bellow's death, ready for the Op-Ed tributes that seemed as certain to appear as The Times itself: Surely one or more of American literature's surviving phallocrats, a Mailer or a Roth or an Updike,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Susan Morrison
5,567 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following interview, Amis discusses his work, literary influences, and techniques, and his reputation as a misogynist, among other topics.
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Critical Essay by Victoria N. Alexander
4,362 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Alexander discusses the influences of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov in Amis's work, focusing on London Fields, Money, and The Moronic Inferno.
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Critical Essay by Neil Powell
3,515 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Powell provides overviews and analyses of three of Amis's early novels, The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies, and Success.
 


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