Isabel Fonseca

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 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. Her 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 from AIDS in 1994; and Quina Fonseca, a designer of clothes, costumes, and hats.

Her maternal grandfather was Jacob Merrill Kaplan, Jacob Merrill Kaplan through his J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. of 55 Fifth Avenue, New York City, at least a million dollars of Central Intelligence Agency funds were dispensed to such leftist organizations as the Institute of International Labor.Research, Inc., headed by Norman Thomas. After her brother Bruno's death, she edited a large book of his paintings which included essays by Alan Jenkins, Karen Wilkin and a personal essay by her, Isabel Fonseca. Bruno Fonseca: The Secret Life of Painting was published by Abbeville Press and the Brooklyn Museum. Bury Me Standing was originally published in 1995 by Alfred A Knopf and translated into 22 languages. They began a relationship while Amis was still married to his first wife, Antonia Phillips, an American academic and the mother of his two sons. In 1993, Amis left Phillips for Fonseca, which led to much "finger-wagging" by the British press. ). In 2011, the Amises left London for Brooklyn. In the summer of 2017, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz purchased Martin Amis and Isabel Fonseca's four-story detached house, in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, through a limited liability company. In May 2023, Martin Amis died at their house in Lake Worth, Florida.

Notable works Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (1995) Bruno Fonseca: The Secret Life of Painting (2000) Attachment (2009)