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Martin Amis was born in 1949, and was educated at over thirteen schools in Britain, Spain and the USA before attending Oxford University, where he gained a formal first in English.
His first novel, The Rachel Papers, was published in 1973, when he was only 24, and it won the Somerset Maugham Award for that year. He rapidly became the most admired, sometimes controversial, and definitely most talked about writer of his generation.
Martin worked as an editorial assistant on the Times Literary Supplement, publishing his second novel Dead Babies in 1975.
He then became literary editor of the New Statesman and published two more novels, Success and Other People.
In 1984 his famous novel Money, starring the quintessential Amis 'hero', John Self, was published, followed by his collected journalism, The Moronic Inferno in 1986.
In 1987 he published a collection of short stories, Einstein's Monsters, which focused on the nuclear threat and contained a polemical element many felt was previously unseen in his fiction. London Fields, published in 1989, was again concerned with nuclear holocaust. Time's Arrow was published in 1991, The Information in 1995 and Night Train in 1997.
Around the time of his 50th birthday, Martin turned from writing fiction to write his memoir, Experience, (published by Jonathan Cape in June 2000) which involved exploring his relationship with his father, Kingsley Amis, another famous novelist.
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