Amis co-helmed a controversial literary scene with Christopher Hitchens.
Amis was born in 1949 in Oxford, the son of writer Kingsley Amis. His stepmother, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, got him hooked on literature in his teens. Martin Amis published his first book in 1973.
From there, he was shortlisted and longlisted for the Booker Prize, and came to help define the tone of 80’s and 90’s literature. He and Christopher Hitchens were the center of a pithy literati, and their friendship endured attacks at each other about Stalinism. Like Hitchens, Amis was not immune to controversy, being accused of Islamophobia in later years and advocating for
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