Martin Amis, a British author of darkish comedic novels, has died on the age of 73, his writer stated Saturday on Twitter.

Penguin Books stated Amis “leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.” Amis died Friday at his residence in Lake Worth, Florida, the New York Times reported earlier, quoting his spouse, Isabel Fonseca, as saying the trigger was esophageal most cancers.

Amis, the creator of 14 novels together with “Money: A Suicide Note,” “London Fields” and “Time’s Arrow,” in 2008 was named one in all 50 finest British writers since 1945 and listed for the Booker Prize twice. Amis, typically referred to as probably the most modern voices of his technology, was the son of the late British creator Kingsley Amis, the topic of his 2000 memoir “Experience.” He moved to the United States in 2011.

Amis’ first novel “The Rachel Papers” was revealed when he was 23. He labored as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and later the literary editor of The New Statesman. Amis advised Reuters in 2012 he was happiest along with his most up-to-date novel on the time “Lionel Asbo: State of England” and less happy with its more celebrated predecessors “all the best way down the road.”

He said over time, “what occurs is your genius will get weaker and your expertise will get stronger.” In a 2020 interview with the New York Times, Amis said “we learn literature to have a superb time. Not a straightforward time, essentially, however not a tough time and never a foul time.”

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