Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. Wikipedia
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Now read on See David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury's campus novels for the next generation of Lucky Jims; Rachel Cusk's work has an Amis-like acidity to it. books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-5,00.html
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Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) was a modern and popular writer who began his career as a radical and ended up fostering an image of curmudgeonly conservatism. He was knighted in 1990. Amis is remembered first and foremost for Lucky Jim (1954). The title bec www.literature-study-online.com/essays/amis.html
British writer Sir Kingsley Amis has a unique connection to James Bond . Author of 2 books about Bond, he was also the first literary successor to Ian Fleming . Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London, England on April 16 1922, and after attendi www.klast.net/bond/amis.html
Sir Kingsley Amis , who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, Lucky Jim , burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'a www.themanbookerprize.com/authors/27