A good friend of mine at the Sun-Sentinel, who went on to write obituaries at the Washington Post, used to muse about writing a book on all the illustrious people who have died in Florida.
The latest and perhaps most surprising name to be added to that long list is that of Martin Amis, who died this past weekend in – get ready for it – Lake Worth. Neither the front page obituary in the New York Times, nor the AP obituary buried deep within the Sun-Sentinel, explained how the English author of The War Against Cliché ended up, like so many septuagenarians, in the Sunshine State.
