Martin Amis; influential and sometimes controversial British author and son of writer Kingsley Amis. He first started his writing career alongside Christopher Hitchens for the "New Statesman. His first novel, "The Rachel Papers" written in 1973, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Influenced by writers such as Saul Bellow and Nabakov, his novels are often seen as being highly "politically incorrect." Among his books to date are "Dead Babies," (1975), "Success," (1978), Money, (1984), "Time's Arrow," (1991), London's Fields, (1989), the autobiographical "Experience," (2000) "The War Against Cliché" (2001) and "The Pregnant Widow" (2010). www.martinamisnet.com
