What is Martin Amis?
[[File:Martin amis 2014.jpg|right|thumb|Martin Amis in 2014]] '''Martin Amis''' (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[novel]]ist. His best known [[novel]]s include ''[[Money (novel)|Money]]'' (1984), [[London Fields (novel)|''London Fields'']] (1989), ''[[Time's Arrow]]'' (1991) and ''[[The Information]]'' (1995). Affected by several writers including his father Sir [[Kingsley Amis]], Amis's style of [[writing]] has affected a [[generation]] of writers. His later work looked at [[moral]] and [[geopolitical]] issues, including [[The Holocaust]], [[Communism|Communist]] [[Russia]], and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] and [[Islam]]ism. == Early life == Amis was born in [[Swansea]], South [[Wales]].{{fact|reason=other sources claim he was born in Oxford, England |date=January 2024}} He was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Sally. He went to many different schools in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. The [[celebrity|fame]] of his father's first novel ''[[Lucky Jim]]'' sent the Amises to [[Princeton, New Jersey]], where his father [[lecture]]d. Amis's [[parents]], Hilly and [[Kingsley Amis|Kingsley]], [[divorce]]d when he was twelve. Amis [[Graduation|graduated]] from [[Exeter College, Oxford]]. He graduated with a [[British undergraduate degree classification|first-class]] [[Bachelor of Arts|degree]] in [[English literature|English]]. After Oxford, he got a [[job]] at ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]''. At age 27, he became [[literature|literary]] [[wikt:editor|editor]] of ''The [[New Statesman]]''. == Early writing == His first novel ''The Rachel Papers'' (1973) won the [[William Somerset Maugham|Somerset Maugham]] Award. It tells the story of a smart, [[self-centered]] [[teenager]] (which Amis says he based on himself) and his [[intimate relationship|relationship]] with his [[girlfriend]] in the year before going to [[university]]. ''Dead Babies'' (1975) has a [[typical]]ly [[1960s]] [[plot]]. It has a [[house]] full of [[Fictional ch