British writer Martin Amis died at the age of 73 at his residence in Lake Worth, Florida, United States. The author of novels such as "Money", "London Fields" and "Night Train", he is considered the reinventer of British narrative in the 80s and 90s.
Amis was often compared to his father, Kingsley Amis, who won the Booker Prize in 1986 for his novel The Old Devils. He credited his stepmother, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, for waking him up to literature as a drifting teenager.