British writer and critic Martin Amis has died at the age of 73. TV channel reported weather citing the testimony of the wife of the prose writer Isabelle Fonseca.
It was stated that Amis died of stomach cancer on May 19 at his home in Florida. According to Sky News, his close friend, well-known US publisher and literary critic Christopher Hitchens, died of the same illness.
Publisher Vintage Books offered its condolences on Amis’s passing and said she had influenced “a generation of prose stylists”.
Martin Amis was born on 25 August 1949 in Oxford. It is known that he read nothing but comics until his stepmother, writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, introduced him to the works of Jane Austen. Amis has published 15 novels, the most famous of which are Money: A Suicide Note and London Fields. He published his first book at the age of 24 and guided the British publishing world for 40 years. According to Sky News, the author often “summarized all eras with his books.”
Amis was the son of the famous author Kingsley Amis, who became famous for his book Lucky Jim and died in 1995.