Martin Amis Amis's work centres on the excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what "The New York Times" called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself has gone on to influence many successful British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. Amis was born in Oxford, England. His father, noted English novelist Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk
Bill Amis Bill Amis Wilburn Davis "Bill" Amis IV (pronounced "A-miss") (born October 25, 1987) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Crelan Okapi Aalstar of the Euromillions Basketball League in Belgium. Bill is also a member of the famous fantasy football league “League of Legends” which pits some of America and Australia’s finest fantasy football players against each other. After an extraordinary run through the 2018 postseason, Bill’s roster “Team Tuna Time” is playing for the League of Legends championship. In what many would say is an unprecedented move, Bill’s fishy rise to the top is built upon