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Martin Amis, the son of Kingsley Amis, was born in Oxford on 25 August 1949. He was educated in Britain, Spain and the USA, attending over thirteen schools and then a series of crammers in London and Brighton. He gained a formal First in English at Exeter College, Oxford. Martin Amis has been an editorial assistant on The Times Literary Supplement and was Literary Editor of the New Statesman from 1977 until 1979 before working as a Special Writer on the Observer. He now contributes to the Independent on Sunday. His publications include two collections of essays, The Moronic Inferno and, more recently Visiting Mrs Nabokov, as well as Einstein's Monsters, a collection of stories about the nuclear age.
Martin Amis has been highly praised as a novelist ever since the publication of his first book, The Rachel Papers in 1974, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and has since been made into a popular film. Following this with his novels Dead Babies, Success, Other People: A Mystery Story, Money, London Fields and Time's Arrow - shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize - Amis's writing has been called (among other things) 'powerful and obsessive' by J. G. Ballard, 'terminally funny' by the Guardian and by John Walsh, writing in the Evening Standard, 'full of risky, throw-away conceits and perfectly cadenced gems of description'.
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