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==Personal life== Amis married the American academic Antonia Phillips in 1984 and they had two sons together. Towards the end of that marriage, he met the writer [[Isabel Fonseca]], whom he married in 1996; together they had two daughters.<ref name="GuardianObituary"/> He became a grandfather in 2008;<ref>Bradford 2012, {{p.|121}}.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=My long lost dad, Martin Amis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/delilah-jeary-martin-amis-father |access-date=23 May 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=6 February 2011}}</ref> he later described his new status as "like getting a telegram from the mortuary".<ref name = Garner /> From 2004 to 2006, he lived with his second family in Uruguay,<ref name="Topping200702">{{cite news|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2013359,00.html|title=Students, meet your new tutor: Amis, the enfant terrible, turns professor|first=Alexandra |last=Topping|date=15 February 2007|access-date=23 February 2007|work=The Guardian|location=London|archive-date=19 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219185448/http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2013359,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> where [[Gonzalo Fonseca|Fonseca's father]] had been born.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ceciliadetorres.com/gf/gf_bio.html |title= Gonzalo Fonseca |first = Cecilia |last=de Torres |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110912010642/http://www.ceciliadetorres.com/gf/gf_bio.html |archive-date = 12 September 2011}}</ref> Upon returning, he said, "Some strange things have happened, it seems to me, in my absence. I didn't feel like I was getting more rightwing when I was in Uruguay, but when I got back I felt that I had moved quite a distance to the right while staying in the same place." He reported that he was disquieted by what he saw as increasingly undisguised hostility towards Israel and the United States.<ref name="Topping200702"/> In late 2010, Amis bought a [[brownstone]] residence in [[Cobble Hill, Brooklyn]], US, although it was uncertain how much time he would be spending there.<ref>Kusisto, Laura (16 December 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20101218083901/http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/martin-amis-brooklyn-bound "Brit to Brobo! Martin Amis Buys in Cobble Hill"], ''The New York Observer''.</ref> In 2012, Amis wrote in ''[[The New Republic]]'' that he was "moving house" from [[Camden Town]] in London to Cobble Hill.<ref>Amis, Martin (23 August 2012). [http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/politics/105714/martin-amis-hes-leaving-home "He's Leaving Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808215759/http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/politics/105714/martin-amis-hes-leaving-home |date=8 August 2012 }}, ''The New Republic''. Retrieved 6 August 2012.</ref> He also had a residence in [[Lake Worth Beach, Florida]], United States.<ref name = Garner/> ===Death=== Amis died from [[oesophageal cancer]] at his home in Florida on 19 May 2023. Like his father, he died at age 73.<ref name="Garner">{{Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=20 May 2023 |title=Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 |language=en-US |volume=172 |pages=A1, A23 |work=The New York Times |issue=59795 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html |url-access=limited |access-date=20 May 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=20 May 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230520185123/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-era-defining-british-novelist-dies-aged-73|title = Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73|last = Shaffi|first = Sarah|date = 20 May 2023|accessdate = 20 May 2023|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|archive-date = 21 May 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230521094012/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-era-defining-british-novelist-dies-aged-73|url-status = live}}</ref> Amis was a life-long smoker.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/martin-amis-returns-with-zone-of-interest-1410463847?mod=article_inline|title = Martin Amis Returns With 'Zone of Interest'|last = Cronin|first = Brenda|date = 11 September 2014|accessdate = 20 May 2023|newspaper = [[The Wall Street Journal]]|url-access = subscription|archive-date = 21 May 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230521035352/https://www.wsj.com/articles/martin-amis-returns-with-zone-of-interest-1410463847?mod=article_inline|url-status = live}}</ref> Amis was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2023 Birthday Honours|2023 King's Birthday Honours]] for services to literature, and the knighthood was backdated to the day before his death.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=64082|supp=y|page=B2|date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
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