Martin Amis
Novelist
Best known for such acclaimed novels as London Fields, The Information, and Money, he became their for his grotesquely satirical literary portraits of Western capitalism.
After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, he worked first for The Times Literary Supplement, and later for The New Statesman.
His debut novel, The Rachel Papers, received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award.
In response to the death of his father, fellow writer Kingsley Amis, he published a James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning memoir, Experience.
His work greatly influenced that of younger British fiction writer Zadie Smith.