For a long time, writer Martin Amis was known in book circles as "the brat." The son of literary giant, Kingsley Amis, young Martin was regarded with suspicion and scorn as he launched his own writing career. Amis writes about that period of his life in his funny and bittersweet memoir "Experience." The book came together after another tumultuous period in his life. In the mid-nineties, he walked out on his first wife for another woman and became a frequent target of criticism in the English press. He also lost his father. On top of all that, he met his teenage daughter, Delilah, for the first time. Amis told Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Curtis that he never knew how deeply he was affected by his seperation from Delilah until it was pointed out to him by a critic: