British writer Martin Amis, whose novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and 1990s by taking stock of tabloid culture and consumerism, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, his wife told The New York Times. He was 73 years old.
Isabel Fonseca, also a writer, revealed to the American newspaper that the cause of death was esophageal cancer, the same disease that killed her friend and professional colleague, Christopher Hitchens, in 2011.
Throughout her career, Amis has published 15 novels, a much-loved memoir (“Experience,” 2000), nonfiction, and collections of essays and short stories. In his last works he investigated Stalin’s atrocities, the war on terror and the legacy of the Holocaust.
He was best known for the London trilogy of novels “Money: A Suicide Note” (1985), “London Fields” (1990) and “The Information” (1995), which remain, along with his memoirs, his most admired works.
Source: TSF
