Acclaimed author Martin Amis has passed away at home after a battle with oesophageal cancer. Amis, from Oxford, died at the age of 73 after writing fifteen novels, including Money and London Fields.
The author, who was twice listed for the prestigious Booker Prize, is said to have redefined fiction in the UK with his unique style of prose. He was born in in 1949 to mum Hilary Bardwell and father Kingsley Amis, also an esteemed writer, reports the Daily Mirror.
He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with First Class Honours in English, and went on to publish his first novel The Rachel Papers in 1973, winning the Somerset Maugham Award.
