Martin Amis
Martin Amis at a venue in León, Spain where he gave a speech in 2007. History León was founded in the 1st century BC by the Roman legion Legio VI ''Victrix''.
Born	25 August 1949 (1949-08-25) (age 58) Oxford, England
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	English
Genres	Fiction, fictional prose
Literary movement	Postmodernism
Influences James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Kingsley Amis, Jane Austen
Influenced Zadie Smith, Will Self

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The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style . The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE ( April 16, 1922 &ndash October 22, 1995) was an English Novelist, . . that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop. " ^[2]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Early writing 3 Later career 4 Current life 4.1 Political opinions 4.2 Current employment 5 Bibliography 5.1 Novels 5.2 Collections 5.3 Non fiction 6 Further reading 7 References 8 External links

Early life

Amis's paternal grandfather was a mustard clerk from Clapham, and his maternal grandfather a shoe millionaire. Clapham is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. ^[3] His parents, Hilary Bardwell and Kingsley Amis, divorced when he was twelve. Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE ( April 16, 1922 &ndash October 22, 1995) was an English Novelist, Much later, Martin lived in a house with Kingsley, Hilly, and Hilly's third husband, Alistair Boyd, Lord Kilmarnock. Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock (born 1927 is Chief of the Clan Boyd ^[4] Amis has described it as "[s]omething out of early Updike, 'Couples' flirtations and a fair amount of drinking," he told The New York Times. John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story "They were all 'at it'. " ^[1]

Born in Oxford, England, Martin was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Sally. He attended a number of different schools in the 1950s and 1960s including Swansea Grammar School. Bishop Gore is a secondary school in Swansea, Wales established in 1682. The acclaim that followed Kingsley's first novel Lucky Jim sent the Amises to Princeton, New Jersey, where Kingsley lectured. Lucky Jim is a comic Novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this This was Amis's introduction to the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Martin Amis read comic books until his stepmother, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, introduced him to Jane Austen, a writer he often names as his earliest influence. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Elizabeth Jane Howard (born 26 March 1923, London) is an English novelist Jane Austen (16 After teenage years spent in flowery shirts and a short spell at Westminster School while living in Hampstead, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with a "Formal" First in English — "the sort where you are called in for a viva and the examiners tell you how much they enjoyed reading your papers. The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain 's leading boys' Independent schools with Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the 4th oldest college of the University The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for Undergraduate degrees ( Bachelor's degrees and some Master's degrees The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from A dissertation (also called thesis or disquisition) is a document that presents the author's Research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature " ^[5]

After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at The Times Literary Supplement, and at age 27 became literary editor of The New Statesman, where he met lifelong friend Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for The Observer. The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969 is a weekly literary review published in London by News International The New Statesman is a British Left-wing political Magazine published weekly in London. Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British Author, Journalist, Literary critic and American The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The

Early writing

According to Martin, Kingsley Amis famously showed no interest in his son's work. "I can point out the exact place where he stopped and sent Money twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in. " "Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself," Kingsley complained [1].

His first novel The Rachel Papers (1973) won the Somerset Maugham Award. The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager (which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university. The Rachel Papers is a 1989 British film based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis.

He also wrote the screenplay for the film Saturn 3, and later wrote a roman a clef about its filming. Saturn 3 is a 1980 Science fiction Film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for "novel with a key" is a Novel describing real life behind a façade of Fiction

Dead Babies (1975), more flippant in tone, has a typically "sixties" plot, with a house full of characters who use various substances. A number of Amis's characteristics show up here for the first time: mordant black humour, obsession with the zeitgeist, authorial intervention, a character subjected to sadistically humorous misfortunes and humiliations, and a defiant casualness ("my attitude has been, I don't know much about science, but I know what I like"). Zeitgeist ( pronounced) is a German language expression literally translated Zeit time; Geist spirit, meaning "the A film adaptation was made in 2000 which was also unsuccessful.

Success (1977) told the story of two foster-brothers, Gregory Riding and Terry Service, and their rising and falling fortunes. This was the first example of Amis's fondness for symbolically 'pairing' characters in his novels, which has been a recurrent feature in his fiction since (Martin Amis and Martina Twain in Money, Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry in The Information, and Jennifer Rockwell and Mike Hoolihan in Night Train).

Other People: A Mystery Story (1981), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's 'Martian' school of poetry. Craig Raine (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England.

Later career

His best-known novels, and the ones most respected by critics, are Money, London Fields, Time's Arrow, and The Information. Money (full title Money A Suicide Note) is a 1984 Novel by Martin Amis. London Fields is a black comic Novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence (1991 is a novel by Martin Amis. The Information is a 1995 Novel by British writer Martin Amis.

Money (subtitled A Suicide Note) is a first-person narrative by John Self, advertising man and would-be film director, who is "addicted to the twentieth century. " The book follows him as he flies back and forth across the Atlantic in pursuit of personal and professional success, and describes a series of comic episodes with darker undertones. The vivid and stylised use of language and black humour was a critical success and the book remains Amis's most highly regarded work.

London Fields, Amis's longest work, describes the encounters between three main characters in London in 1999, as a climate disaster approaches. The characters had typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, 'the fool, the foil, the poor foal' who is destined to come between the other two. The book was reportedly omitted from the Booker Prize shortlist in its year of publication, 1989, because of panel members protesting against its alleged misogyny.

Time's Arrow, the autobiography of a doctor who helped torture Jews during the Holocaust, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, drew notice both for its unusual technique — time runs backwards during the entire novel, down to the dialogue initially being spoken backwards — as well as for its topic. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel

The size of the advance (an alleged £500,000) demanded and obtained by Amis for The Information (1995) attracted what Amis described as "an Eisteddfod of hostility" from writers and critics after he left his agent of many years, Pat Kavanagh, in order to be represented by the Harvard-educated Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie. See also An eisteddfod (aɪˈstɛðvəd Welsh ə(iˈstɛðvɔd plural eisteddfodau or eisteddfods) is a Welsh Festival Kavanagh is married to Julian Barnes, with whom Amis had been friends for many years, but the incident caused a rift that, according to Amis in his autobiography Experience (1999), has not yet healed. Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English Writer.

Night Train (1997) is a short novel in the stylised form of a US police procedural, narrated by the female, but mannish, Detective Mike Hoolihan, who has been called upon to investigate the suicide of her boss's daughter. Night Train (1997 is a novel by author Martin Amis. Plot summary This book is told from the perspective of Detective Mike Hoolihan a female Amis's American vernacular in the narrative was criticised by, among others, John Updike, although the novel found defenders elsewhere, notably in Janis Bellow, wife of Amis's sometime mentor Saul Bellow. John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows ( June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was an acclaimed Canadian -born American

The memoir Experience is largely about his relationship with his father, Kingsley Amis, though he also writes of being reunited with long-lost daughter, Delilah Seale, the product of an affair in the 1970s, whom he did not see until she was 19, and the story of how one of his cousins, Lucy Partington, became a victim of Fred West when she was 21. Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis. Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995 better known as Fred West, was an English Serial killer. The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. Founded in 1919 the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language and are Britain's

In 2002, Amis published Koba the Dread, a book about the crimes of Stalinism. The book provoked a literary controversy for its approach to the material, and for its attack on his longtime friend Christopher Hitchens, who rebuked his charges in a stinging review in The Atlantic. Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British Author, Journalist, Literary critic and American Asked recently if they were still friends, Amis responded "We never needed to make up. We had an adult exchange of views, mostly in print, and that was that (or, more exactly, that goes on being that). My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May. "^[6]

In 2003, Yellow Dog, Amis's first novel in six years, was denounced by Tibor Fischer, whose comments were widely reported in the media: "Yellow Dog isn't bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. Yellow Dog is the title of a 2003 novel by the British writer Martin Amis. Tibor Fischer (born November 15, 1959 in Stockport, England) is a British Novelist and short story writer It's not-knowing-where-to-look bad. I was reading my copy on the Tube and I was terrified someone would look over my shoulder . . . It's like your favourite uncle being caught in a school playground, masturbating". Masturbation refers to Sexual stimulation especially of one's own genitals ( self masturbation) and often to the point of Orgasm, which Elsewhere, the book received mixed reviews, with some critics proclaiming the novel a return to form, but most considered the book to be a great disappointment. Amis was unrepentant about the novel and its reaction, calling Yellow Dog "among my best three". He gave his own explanation for the novel's critical failure, "No one wants to read a difficult literary novel or deal with a prose style which reminds them how thick they are. There's a push towards egalitarianism, making writing more chummy and interactive, instead of a higher voice, and that's what I go to literature for. "^[7]

In September 2006, Amis published House of Meetings, a short novel about two half-brothers who loved the same woman and who were incarcerated together in a Soviet gulag. The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. In 2008, Amis will publish The Pregnant Widow which marks the beginning of a new four-book deal.

Amis has also released two collections of short stories (Einstein's Monsters and Heavy Water), three volumes of collected journalism and criticism (The Moronic Inferno, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and The War Against Cliché), and a guide to 1980s space-themed arcade video-game machines (Invasion of the Space Invaders).

Current life

Amis returned to Britain in September 2006 after living in Uruguay for two and a half years with his second wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, and their two young daughters. Uruguay.(official full name in República Oriental del Uruguay;, Oriental Republic of Uruguay) is a country located in the southeastern part of South America ^[8]

He said, "Some strange things have happened, it seems to me, in my absence. I didn't feel like I was getting more rightwing when I was in Uruguay, but when I got back I felt that I had moved quite a distance to the right while staying in the same place. " He reports that he is disquieted by what he sees as increasingly undisguised hostility towards Israel and the United States. ^[8]

Political opinions

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Amis was a strong critic of nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of Nuclear weapons, fissile material and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations His collection of five stories on this theme, Einstein's Monsters, began with a long essay entitled 'Unthinkability' in which he set out his views on the issue, writing: "nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they end all thought. "

He wrote in "Nuclear City" in Esquire of 1987 (re-published in Visiting Mrs Nabokov) that: "when nuclear weapons become real to you, when they stop buzzing around your ears and actually move into your head, hardly an hour passes without some throb or flash, some heavy pulse of imagined supercatastrophe. Esquire (abbreviated Esq) is a term of British origin originally used to denote social status "

Amis expressed his opinions on terrorism in an extended essay published in The Observer on the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in which he criticized the economic development of all Arab countries because their "aggregate GDP. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The . . was less than the GDP of Spain", and they "lag[ged] behind the West, and the Far East, in every index of industrial and manufacturing output, job creation, technology, literacy, life-expectancy, human development, and intellectual vitality. "^[10]

On Muslims living in the West, in an interview conducted by Ginny Dougary in The Times Magazine, Amis said, "There’s a definite urge – don’t you have it? – to say, ‘The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order. Ginny Dougary is a British award-winning interviewer and feature writer for The Times. ’ What sort of suff­­er­­­ing? Not letting them travel. Deportation – further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they’re from the Middle East or from Pakistan… Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children. "^[11]. The critic Terry Eagleton in the 2007 introduction to his work Ideology attacked Amis for acknowledging this impulse. Terence Francis Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943, Salford then in Lancashire) is regarded by many as Britain's most influential living Literary Eagleton observes that this view is "[n]ot the ramblings of a British National Party thug, [. . . ] but the reflections of Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world," who has learnt more from his father, "a racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals", than "how to turn a shapely phrase". ^[12]

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote an op-ed piece on the subject condemning Amis and he responded with an open letter to The Independent which the newspaper printed in full. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (born Yasmin Damji on 10 December 1949) is an Uganda -born Journalist, based in London; she hyphenated her The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. In it, he stated his views had been misrepresented by both Alibhai-Brown and Eagleton. ^[13]

In response to these criticisms, Amis told the Guardian newspaper:

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And now I feel that this was the only serious deprivation of my childhood - the awful human colourlessness of South Wales, the dully flickering whites and grays, like a Pathe newsreel, like an ethnic Great Depression. In common with all novelists, I live for and am addicted to physical variety; and my one quarrel with the rainbow is that its spectrum isn't wide enough. I would like London to be full of upstanding Martians and Neptunians, of reputable citizens who came, originally, from Krypton and Tralfamadore. [14]

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On terrorism, Martin Amis wrote that he suspected "there exists on our planet a kind of human being who will become a Muslim in order to pursue suicide-mass murder," and added: "I will never forget the look on the gatekeeper's face, at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, when I suggested, perhaps rather airily, that he skip some calendric prohibition and let me in anyway. His expression, previously cordial and cold, became a mask; and the mask was saying that killing me, my wife, and my children was something for which he now had warrant. "^[10]

In comments on the BBC in October 2006 Amis expressed his view that North Korea was the most dangerous of the two remaining members of the Axis Of Evil, but that Iran was our "natural enemy", suggesting that we should not feel bad about having "helped Iraq scrape a draw with Iran" in the Iran-Iraq War, because a "revolutionary and rampant Iran would have been a much more destabilising presence. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, Definition President Bush's exact statement was as follows second goal is to prevent regimes (terrorist that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. "^[15]

His views on Islamism earned him the sobriquet Blitcon^[16] from the New Statesman (his former employer), argued to be wrongly applied. Islamism ( Islam + ism; Arabic: al-'islāmiyya) a set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only Blitcon is a collective Portmanteau term invented to describe the political tendencies of Britain's three most prominent novelists ( B ritish lit erary neo' The New Statesman is a British Left-wing political Magazine published weekly in London. ^[17]

His opinions have been viewed in some quarters as hostile and racist, as written in The Guardian^[18]. He has, however, received support from other writers. In The Spectator, Philip Hensher noted,

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"The controversy raised by Amis’s views on religion as specifically embodied by Islamists is an empty one. For other uses see Spectator. The Spectator is a weekly British Magazine first published on 6 July He will tell you that his loathing is limited to Islamists, not even to Islam and certainly not to the ethnic groups concerned. The point, I think, is demonstrated, and the openness with which he has been willing to think out loud could usefully be emulated by political figures, addicted as they are to weasel words and double talk. I have to say that from non-practising Muslims I’ve heard language and opinions on Islamists which are far less temperate than anything Amis uses. In comparison to the private expressions of voices of modernity within Muslim societies, Amis is almost exaggeratedly respectful. "

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His new collection of pieces about Islam, The Second Plane, has received mixed reviews. Writing in the Sunday Times, William Dalrymple described the book as "a book that is not just wilfully ignorant, a triumph of style over knowledge, but that, for all its panache and gloss, is at its heart disturbingly bigoted. " In The Independent, Cal McCrystal described the collection as "trenchant, deeply informed and informative". The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. Despite mixed reviews, the book is already on its third print-run.

Current employment

In February 2007, Martin Amis was appointed as a Professor of Creative Writing at The Manchester Centre for New Writing in the University of Manchester, and started in September 2007. The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing runs taught MA courses and PhD research programmes in creative and critical writing The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. He runs postgraduate seminars, and is expected to participate in four public events each year, including a two week summer school for MA students. ^[8]

Of his position, he said: "I may be acerbic in how I write but. . . I would find it very difficult to say cruel things to [students] in such a vulnerable position. I imagine I'll be surprisingly sweet and gentle with them. "^[8] He predicts that the experience might inspire him to write a new book, while adding sardonically: "A campus novel written by an elderly novelist, that's what the world wants. "^[8]. It has been revealed that the salary paid to Amis by the university is £80,000 a year. ^[19] The Manchester Evening News broke the story claiming that according to his contract this meant he was paid £3000 an hour for 28 hours a year teaching. The Manchester Evening News (also known as MEN Media) is an English daily Newspaper published each week day evening and on Saturdays The claim was echoed in headlines in several national papers. However like any other member of academic staff his teaching contact hours constitute a minority of his commitments, a point confirmed in the original article by a reply from the University. ^[20]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Rachel Papers (1973), filmed in 1989
• Dead Babies (1975), filmed in 2000
• Success (1978)
• Other People (1981)
• Money (1984)
• London Fields (1989)
• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense (1991)
• The Information (1995)
• Night Train (1997)
• Yellow Dog (2003)
• House of Meetings (2006)
• The Pregnant Widow (2008)

Collections

• Einstein's Monsters (1987)
• Two Stories (1994)
• God's Dice (1995)
• Heavy Water: And Other Stories (1998)
• State of England: And Other Stories (1998)
• Amis Omnibus (omnibus) (1999)
• The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000)
• Vintage Amis

Non fiction

• Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982)
• The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986)
• Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993)
• Experience (2000)
• The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)
• Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) (About Joseph Stalin and Russian History)
• The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom (2008)

Further reading

References

External links

• The Martin Amis Web (created by James Diedrick; now managed by Gavin Keulks)
• The Martin Amis Discussion Board
• Martin Amis - Author Page (Guardian Books)
• Two Audio Interviews with Martin Amis: 1985 (23 min 22 s) and 1990 (32 min 4 s) RealAudio
• Martin Amis, The New York Times: Reviews of Martin Amis's earlier books; articles about and by Martin Amis
• Authors in the front line: Martin Amis, The Sunday Times Magazine, February 06, 2005 – On the streets of Colombia, young boys cripple or murder each other just for showing disrespect or for winning at a game of cards. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Is the taste for violence opening up a wound that can never heal? Report: Martin Amis – In The Sunday Times Magazine's continuing series of articles, renowned writers bring a fresh perspective to the world's trouble spots. The international medical-aid organisation MSF has helped our correspondents reach some of these inhospitable areas.
• CareerMove - A complete short story by Amis.
• Hendon Mob Poker Tournament Results

• Martin Amis at www.contemporarywriters.com
• Martin Amis at the Internet Book List
• Transcript of online web discussion (2002)
• Martin Amis interviewed by Ginny Dougary (2006)
• Martin Amis interviewed by Tony Jones on Lateline (1/11/2006)
• "Breath was just another weapon": a review in the TLS by Bharat Tandon, September 2006. Lateline is an Australian Television news and current affairs program airing weeknights at 1030 pm on ABC1, similar in format to the BBC 's
• Goading the Enemy an interview with Amis by Silvia Spring for Newsweek International regarding terrorism. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. (11/6/2006)
• Martin Amis on Question Time
• Tom Chatfield writes on Amis's House of Meetings for Prospect Magazine
• The Amis Inheritance — Profile on Martin and Kingsley Amis from New York Times Magazine (4/22/2007). Not to be confused with The American Prospect magazine Prospect is a monthly British general interest Magazine The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper
• 1985, 1990 interviews with Martin Amis by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
• Martin Amis interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm
• The Absurd World of Martin Amis
• Shame on Us
• "Martin Amis and the boredom of terror": an article in the TLS by Marjorie Perloff, February 13 2008

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NAME	Amis, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	25 August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cardiff, Wales
DATE OF DEATH
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