Martin Amis

Highest Rated: 31% Saturn 3 (1980)

Lowest Rated: 31% Saturn 3 (1980)

Birthday: Aug 25, 1949

Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Although his father, Kingsley Amis, was a literary celebrity in his own right, Martin Amis has long since established himself as a force to rival his father's in British fiction. Beginning with his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the younger Amis has followed in his father's footsteps, producing commercially and critically successful, if sometimes controversial, fiction. Several of his novels have been turned into films or TV shows including "The Rachel Papers" (1989) and "Money" (2010), thus lending further credence to his status as one of the most widely respected authors of contemporary British literature.

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