Martin Amis, acclaimed British author and “Mick Jagger of the book world,” has died.
Amis was born in Oxford, England, on August 25, 1949. His paternal grandfather was a clerk in the mustard business, but the literary family Martin grew up in knew no such ho-hum middle-class stability. Kingsley Amis and Hilly Bardwell, Martin’s mother, would have multiple marriages and Martin, the middle child of three, attended more than a dozen schools. In the academic year 1959–60, the family lived in Princeton, New Jersey, as Kingsley made his way from university town to university town.
Amis, with that unmistakably British perspective and voice, wrote often about the United States in his fiction and essays, including the 1986 nonfiction collectionwhose title, borrowed from Bellow, feels even more prophetic now than it did then. At the time, Amis himself predicted as much: “It exactly describes a possible future, one in which the moronic inferno will cease to be a metaphor and will become a reality: the only reality,” he wrote in the book’s introduction.
As an undergrad at Oxford, Amis, a voracious student, hoovered up the entirety of English literature, graduating with first-class honors from Exeter College. He later said that he fantasized in those days about E. B. White showing up, out of the blue, to offer him a job atby the age of 27, he was literary editor ofGiven his family background and predilections, such precocity was perhaps only natural.
—cemented his literary superstardom in a series of fat novels that allowed him to fix his basilisk glare on the excesses and privations of late capitalism.lauded his “cement-hard observations of a seedy, queasy new Britain, part strip-joint, part Buckingham Palace.” Moving into the 21st century, the focus widened still: Hitler, Stalin, September 11. Geohistorical horribleness became the theme and with it an ever-enlarging ambition.
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