Born August 25, 1949, in Oxford, England; son of Kingsley William (a writer) and Hilary Amis; married Antonia Phillips, 1984 (divorced); married Isabel Fonseca, c: 1996; children: (from an affair with Lamorna Heath) Delilah Seale, (first marriage) Louis and Jacob, (second marriage) Fernanda and Clio. Education: Exeter College, Oxford, B.A. (with honors), 1971. Addresses: Home: London, England. Agent: The Wylie Agency, 250 W. 57th St., Ste. 2114, New York, NY 10107.

NOVELS

• The Rachel Papers, J. Cape (London, England), 1973, Knopf (New York, NY), 1974.
• Dead Babies, J. Cape (London, England), 1975, published as Dark Secrets, Panther (New York, NY), 1977.
• Success, J. Cape (London, England), 1978.
• Other People: A Mystery Story, J. Cape (London, England), 1981.
• Money: A Suicide Note, J. Cape (London, England), 1984, Viking (New York, NY), 1985.
• London Fields, J. Cape (London, England), 1989.
• The Information, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1995.
• Night Train, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1998.
• Yellow Dog, Talk Miramax Books (New York, NY), 2003.
• House of Meetings, J. Cape (London, England), 2006, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2007.
• The Pregnant Widow, J. Cape (London, England), 2007.

• Time's Arrow; or, The Nature of the Offence, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1991.
• Heavy Water and Other Stories, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1999.
• Vintage Amis (various past writings and excerpts and new short story), Vintage (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to anthologies, including My Oxford, edited and introduced by Ann Thwaite, Robson Books (London, England), 1977, revised edition, 1986; and Winter's Tales 25, edited by Caroline Hobhouse, Macmillan (London, England), 1979, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1980; Also author of screenplays Mixed Doubles, 1979, and Saturn 3, 1980. Contributor of short stories to Encounter, Penthouse, Granta 13, London Review of Books, and Literary Review. Contributor of articles and reviews to numerous periodicals, including Times Literary Supplement, Observer, New Statesman, New York Times, and Sunday Telegraph.

NONFICTION

• Invasion of the Space Invaders (autobiographical), with an introduction by Stephen Spielberg, Hutchinson (London, England), 1982.
• The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (articles, reviews and interviews), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1986.
• Einstein's Monsters (essay and short stories), Harmony (New York, NY), 1987.
• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (essays), J. Cape (London, England), 1993, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1994.
• Experience (memoirs), Talk Miramax Books (New York, NY), 2000.
• The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000, J. Cape (London, England), 2001.
• Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, Talk Miramax Books (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom (columns, essays, and short stories), Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.