His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
He had a peripatetic childhood, attending schools in Swansea, Cambridge and, when Kingsley relocated the family to the United States, Princeton. After graduating with a degree in English from Exeter College, Oxford, he took a job as an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement in 1972. The following year he published his debut novel, The Rachel Papers, a brilliantly funny coming-of-age story, which won the Somerset Maugham Prize.
catapulted him to celebrity; he forged lifelong friendships with other literary big-hitters including Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Julian Barnes. Martin Amis at the Booker Prize ceremony in London in 1991: If he had his finger on the cultural pulse in the 1980s and 1990s, in his later years he sometimes seemed out of touch. Photograph: Rebecca Naden/PA
Amis’s other novels include a satire of the publishing industry , a parodic detective novel and two Holocaust fictions . In bookish circles he is esteemed as much for his nonfiction as his fiction, in particular his volume of essays on US pop culture, The Moronic Inferno , his memoir, Experience and his collection of criticism, The War Against Cliche .
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