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Martin Amis, son of the novelist Kingsley Amis, was born August 25, 1949. His childhood was spent traveling with his famous father. From 1969 to 1971 he attended Exeter College at Oxford University. After graduating, he worked for the Times Literary Supplement and later as special writer for the Observer. Amis published his first novel, The Rachel Papers, in 1973, which received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1974. Other titles include Dead Babies (1976), Other People: A Mystery Story (1981); London Fields (1989), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1997). Martin Amis has been called the voice of his generation. His novels are controversial, often satiric and dark, concentrating on urban low life. His style has been compared to that of Graham Greene, Philip Larkin and Saul Bellow, among others. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from London Fields… (more)
Money: A Suicide Note 3,207 copies, 53 reviews
London Fields 3,206 copies, 45 reviews
The Information 2,124 copies, 21 reviews
The Rachel Papers 1,657 copies, 29 reviews
Night Train 1,449 copies, 30 reviews
Experience 1,203 copies, 12 reviews
Dead Babies 999 copies, 14 reviews
House of Meetings 934 copies, 27 reviews
Yellow Dog 912 copies, 6 reviews
Heavy Water and Other Stories 719 copies, 7 reviews
Success 711 copies, 7 reviews
The Pregnant Widow 603 copies, 21 reviews
Lolita (Introduction, some editions) 30,932 copies, 548 reviews
A Clockwork Orange (Preface, some editions) 25,227 copies, 379 reviews
The Drowned World (Introduction, some editions) 2,675 copies, 65 reviews
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris (Cover photo, some editions) 768 copies, 51 reviews
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard (Introduction) 692 copies, 11 reviews
The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (Introduction, some editions) 477 copies, 4 reviews
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contributor) 418 copies, 2 reviews
Bad Trips (Contributor) 229 copies, 6 reviews
Granta 25: The Murderee (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review
Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man (Contributor) 158 copies, 1 review
Granta 63: Beasts (Contributor) 132 copies
Granta 33: What Went Wrong? (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
Granta 47: Losers (Contributor) 127 copies, 1 review
Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President (Contributor) 126 copies, 3 reviews
Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge (Contributor) 118 copies, 2 reviews
CYBERSEX (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of New Erotica (Contributor) 76 copies
Time Travelers (Fiction in the Fourth Dimension) (Contributor) 62 copies, 3 reviews
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis (Editor) 60 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 13: After the Revolution (Contributor) 54 copies
Realms of Darkness (Contributor) 43 copies, 1 review
Granta 4: Beyond the Crisis (Contributor) 36 copies
Stories To Get You Through The Night (Contributor) 31 copies
The Bedside Guardian 2018 (Contributor) 12 copies
The Story About the Story Vol. II (Contributor) 10 copies

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