[3] Fonseca grew up in a house on West 11th Street in New York that used to belong to Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial.
She 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.
[4] Fonseca has also 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.
[4] Between 2003 and 2006, she and her husband, Martin Amis, and two children, Fernanda and Clio, lived in Uruguay where she designed and built their house, in a small fishing village on a windy peninsula in the southern Atlantic.
[1] The press painted Amis as a second-generation philanderer and Fonseca as a sultry American heiress (because of her being a trustee to the J. M. Kaplan fund).