The Resume

(August 25, 1949-May 19, 2023)
Resides in London, New York and Uruguay
Wrote ‘The Rachel Papers (1973),’ ‘Dead Babies (1975),’ ‘Money (1984),’ ‘London Fields (1989),’ ‘Time’s Arrow (1991),’ ‘The Information (1995),’ ‘Heavy Water (1998),’ ‘The War Against Cliché (2001)’ and ‘Koba the Dread (2002)’
Son of Kingsley Amis

Why he might be annoying:

He is arrogant.
He refers to himself as ‘a god.’
His writing style is dense and pretentious.
His books are full of unpleasant characters and sordid situations.
He is criticized for political bias and shoddy research in his nonfiction.
His books have been made into several film flops.
His father, the famous novelist Kingsley Amis, called him ‘bright, but a fucking fool.’
He spent $30,000 getting his bad teeth fixed, and then whined about how painful the operation was.

Why he might not be annoying:

He’s won several writing awards.
He has a large following of fans and critics.
He’s been called ‘the best American writer England has ever produced’ and ‘the Mick Jagger of literature.’
Despite his reputation for nastiness, he cried watching ‘E.T.’
He dedicated a book to his father, but he wouldn’t read it.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [August] (Ranked: 8251949)
• Elizabeth Gilbert's Top 10 New Classic Short Stories for Entertainment Weekly [1983-2008] (Ranked: 1)
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008] (Ranked: 61)
• I Died in 2023 (Ranked: 73)
• I Write Sci-Fi
• Influenced by Hannah Arendt
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Men Caught Weeping in Public
• Profiles 14501-14750 (Ranked: 14626)
• Snaggle Tooth
• Supersized Egos
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20230519)
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 6]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 117 Votes: 65.81% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 81.25% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 30 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 44 Votes: 77.27% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 71 Votes: 66.20% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 140 Votes: 73.57% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 122 Votes: 79.51% Annoying