Isabel Fonseca, Lady Amis was born on 1961 and is an American writer.
11 Facts About Isabel Fonseca
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Isabel Fonseca is best known for her books Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey and Attachment.
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Isabel Fonseca was married to novelist Sir Martin Amis until his death in May 2023.
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Isabel Fonseca was born in New York in 1961 and is the youngest of four children born to Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and American painter Elizabeth Kaplan.
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Isabel Fonseca's siblings include Caio Fonseca, a painter whose works hang in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art; Bruno Fonseca, a painter who died of AIDS in 1994; and Quina Fonseca, a designer of clothes, costumes, and hats.
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Isabel Fonseca then went on to study at Wadham College in Oxford.
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Isabel Fonseca left the TLS to write Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, a story of the Roma which she researched while traveling alone through Eastern Europe for four years.
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Isabel Fonseca traveled with Gypsies from Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, and Albania.
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Isabel Fonseca 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 publications.
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Isabel Fonseca met novelist Martin Amis during a phone interview while she was working at The Times Literary Supplement.
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In 1993, Amis left Phillips for Isabel Fonseca, which led to much "finger-wagging" by the British press.