Martin Amis, one of the most recognized and influential writers of recent years, has died at age 73 at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, United States. His wife, Isabel Fonseca, has detailed that the cause of death was esophageal cancer.
Amis soon escaped the shadow of his father, the award-winning novelist Kingsley Amis – a central figure in his memoirs Experience and Koba – and rose to fame in the seventies. One of his most repeated phrases is: "Literature is not necessary for life, but it is necessary for civilization"