Martin Amis, the acclaimed British author best known for “Money,” “London Fields” and a dozen other novels of flash, style and substance, who was also a fixture of the London literary scene, has died at age 73.
Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Fla., as confirmed by his longtime U.S. publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf. The cause was esophageal cancer. He is survived by his wife, writer Isabel Fonseca.
Amis came to prominence with what is commonly referred to as his “London trilogy” of novels: “Money: A Suicide Note” (1984), an exploration of Thatcher-era hyper-capitalism; “London Fields” (1989), an apocalyptic murder mystery; and “The Information” (1995), which focused on the male midlife crisis. Over the span of his career, Amis published 15 novels as well as works of nonfiction and collections of essays and short stories. He turned his gaze inward with his well-regarded memoir, 2000’s “Experience.”
