The celebrated author of Money and London Fields, whose works defined the 80s and 90s literary scene, died of oesophageal cancer on Friday at his home in Florida
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.
Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. He was 73.