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Born	August 25, 1949 • Oxford • England
Died	May 19, 2023 (aged 73) • Florida
Notable Works	“Dead Babies” • “Einstein’s Monsters” • “Experience” • “House of Meetings” • “Inside Story” • “Koba the Dread” • “London Fields” • “Money” • “Night Train” • “Other People” • “Success” • “The Information” • “The Pregnant Widow” • “The Rachel Papers” • “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016” • “The War Against Cliché” • “The Zone of Interest” • “Time’s Arrow” • “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions”
Notable Family Members	father Kingsley Amis

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