About
Best known for such acclaimed novels as London Fields, The Information, and Money, he became famous for his grotesquely satirical literary portraits of Western capitalism. He wrote multiple screenplays, including co-writing an adaption of his book London Fields in 2018.
Before Fame
After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, he worked first for The Times Literary Supplement, and later for The New Statesman.
Trivia
His debut novel, The Rachel Papers, received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award. He published 15 novels throughout his long and prolific career.
Family Life
In response to the death of his father, fellow writer Kingsley Amis, he published a James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning memoir, Experience. He was married twice; he had two daughters.
Associated With
His work greatly influenced that of younger British fiction writer Zadie Smith.
