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Isabel Fonseca, Lady Amis (born 1961) is an American writer. She is best known for her books Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey and Attachment. She was married to novelist Sir Martin Amis until his death in May 2023. Early life.
Apr 20, 2008 · ISABEL FONSECA’S new book, her second in 13 years, is a novel, “Attachment,” about a woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Isabel Fonseca grew up on New York City. She went to Barnard College and Oxford University before settling in London, where she worked as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. She has written for the Times , The Guardian , The Economist , Harper’s Bazaar , The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The American Scholar, among other ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Isabel Fonseca (otherwise known as Martin Amis’ wife) opens this journey into the lives of Gypsies with the story of Papusza, who was the most famous Romany poet, but whose death in 1987 went unnoticed.
Fonseca studied on Columbia and Oxford. Writes for many newspapers and magazines, The Independent, Vogue, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal. For four years, she has been living with the Gypsies from Albany to Poland. Currently lives in London with her husband Martin Amis and their two daughters.
Jan 1, 2008 · 407 ratings88 reviews. The author of the classic Bury Me Standing now gives us a riveting first novel that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London and New York, and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart.
Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma.
