Leading British novelist Martin Amis is Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing; his first teaching post.
Photo of Amis, taken by his wife Isabel Fonseca, courtesy of The Random House Group, Ltd.
Martin Amis
Regarded by many critics as one of the most influential and innovative voices in contemporary British fiction, Amis is often grouped with the generation of British-based novelists that emerged during the 1980s and included Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes. His work has been heavily influenced by American fiction, especially the work of Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow.
His loose trilogy of novels set in London begins with Money: A Suicide Note (1984), a satire of Thatcherite amorality and greed, continues with London Fields (1989), and concludes with The Information (1995) - a tale of literary rivalry. Time's Arrow (1991) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Other books include Night Train (1997), a pastiche of American detective fiction; an acclaimed volume of autobiography, Experience (2000, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), and Koba the Dread, a non-fiction work about communism in the 20th century (2002).
Amis is also the author of three collections of essays; The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986), Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993), and The War Against Cliché (2001), which includes essays and book reviews. He has also published two collections of short stories; Einstein's Monsters (1987) and Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998).
He is a regular contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and journals, including the Sunday Times, The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times.
Martin Amis lives in London. His latest book is House of Meetings (2006), and he will publish a new novel, The Pregnant Widow, in 2008.
from: http://www.contemporarywriters.com