Death | Martin Amis, acclaimed author of Bleakly Comic Novels, dies at 73
His wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer — the same disease that killed his close friend and fellow writer Christopher Hitchens in 2011
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His wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer — the same disease that killed his close friend and fellow writer Christopher Hitchens in 2011
Renowned British novelist Martin Amis has died at the age of 73.
Boris Johnson leads tributes to novelist who has died of esophageal cancer at his home in Florida
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.
Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. He was 73.