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Martin Amis (1949–2023) was a British male author. His bibliography includes works such as *The History of Tom Jones / The Rachel Papers*, *Getting It On*, *American wild*, *Ḥets ha-zeman*, and *Travelling Hopefully*. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Amis had five children. His writing has been associated with the view that style is not neutral and gives moral directions, as well as the observation that being inoffensive and being offended are twin addictions of the culture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949
- Died
- 2023
- Works
- 59
Top works
- The History of Tom Jones / The Rachel Papers
- Getting It On
- American wild
- Ḥets ha-zeman
- Travelling Hopefully
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-08-25
- Active to
- 2023-05-19
Discography
- Night Train2002
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 255
- Total plays
- 2,131
Martin Louis Amis FRSL (* 25 August 1949 in Swansea, South Wales) is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He was the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but stepped down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Amis's raw material is what he sees as the <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Martin+Amis">R
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 76,010x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,689x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,938x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
- “Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
- “Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.”
- “It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.”
- “What happened on September 11? On September 11 — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts. Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. And with words destroyed, we had to make do, we had to bolster truth with colons and repetition: not only repetition: but repetition and: colons. This is what we adduce.”
- “America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Amis's work centres on the excesses of late capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness.” He was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis. Amis influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
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