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): Brad Drew • Charlie Sanders • Erich Honecker • Frank Serratore • Frederick Chapman Robbins • James Rossiter • Joshua Lionel Cowen • Michael Kaluta • Nicholas A. Peppas • Patrick F. McManus • Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg • Sanjeev Sharma • Wilhelm von Homburg
Born in the same month (August 1949): Ann Murray • Bill Spooner • Bob Backlund • Dino Bravo • Jim Brunzell • Joe Regalbuto • John Savage (actor) • Joop Donkervoort • Leon Redbone • Lou Martin • Nikolas Asimos • Panagiotis Chinofotis • Ray Nettles • Shelley Long • Tim Hutchinson