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Martin Amis

1949 - 2023

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Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Amis has received more than 2,539,830 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Martin Amis is the 650th most popular writer (up from 3,396th in 2019), the 488th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,518th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Writer.

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  • 45

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  • 9.85

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  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Martin Amis ranks 650 out of 7,302Before him are Alexander Pope, Michael Crichton, Muriel Spark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Harper Lee. After him are Eugène Sue, Ernest Thompson Seton, Giosuè Carducci, Ryszard Kapuściński, Pietro Metastasio, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Martin Amis ranks 43Before him are John Belushi, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Robin Gibb, Thaksin Shinawatra, Lionel Richie, and Fanny Ardant. After him are José Ramos-Horta, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bill Nighy, Amin Maalouf, and Don Johnson. Among people deceased in 2023, Martin Amis ranks 45Before him are Matthew Perry, Antonio Negri, William Friedkin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Paul Berg, and Wolfgang Schäuble. After him are Karel Schwarzenberg, Rosalynn Carter, Pervez Musharraf, Alan Arkin, Federico Bahamontes, and Tom Wilkinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Amis ranks 488 out of 8,785Before him are Nick Mason (1944), Margot Fonteyn (1919), Joseph Lister (1827), John Smith (1580), John Dowland (1563), and John Cleese (1939). After him are George Everest (1790), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), James Callaghan (1912), Thomas Carlyle (1795), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), and Henry Hudson (1570).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Martin Amis ranks 56Before him are John Donne (1572), J. M. Barrie (1860), Samuel Johnson (1709), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Alexander Pope (1688), and Muriel Spark (1918). After him are Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), Douglas Adams (1952), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), and Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090).