WRITER

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 2,500,994 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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  • 64.90

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.85

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  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Success
Man-woman relationships, Fiction
1978
Koba the Dread
Politics and government, Political persecution, Terrorism
2002
Dead Babies
Comedy, English fiction, Black comedy
1975
The Rachel Papers
Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Black Comedy
1973
Night train
Fiction, Suicide victims, Policewomen
1997
London fields
Fiction, City and town life, murder
1989
London fields
Fiction, City and town life, murder
1989
Koba the Dread
Politics and government, Political persecution, Terrorism
2002
Money
Fiction, Television producers and directors, Motion picture producers and directors
1984
Dead Babies
Comedy, English fiction, Black comedy
1975
The Rachel Papers
Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Black Comedy
1973
Night train
Fiction, Suicide victims, Policewomen
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case - this case - has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop - now top brass - takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to "put the case down." Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look. Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.
1997

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Martin Amis ranks 650 out of 7,302. Before 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 43. Before 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 45. Before 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 8,785. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Martin Amis ranks 56. Before 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).

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