Martin Amis
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
25 August 1949
Born on the same birth date (25 August 1949): Gene Simmons • John Savage (actor) • Rijkman Groenink
Born on the same birth day (25 August): Bernardo Rezende • Billy Ray Cyrus • David Canary • Doug Glanville • Eddie Ilarde • Frank Serratore • George Wallace • Gerd Müller (politician) • Hannah Louise Shearer • Keith Tippett • Ludwig Müller (footballer) • Marie-Eugénie de Jésus • Marshall Brickman • Petria Thomas • Rebeka Jančová • Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer) • Tom Kiely • Velimir Jovanović
Born in the same month (August 1949): Darnell Hillman • Don Boudria • Matthew Parris • Nigel Griggs • Paul Pasqualoni • Sib Hashian