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Apr 23, 2022 · Amis began hectoring younger talents and calling himself a “senior writer”. As he approached 60 in the late 1970s, his comforts fell away. Howard moved out with a stinging note: “You are not ...
Kingsley Amis has 175 books on Goodreads with 134449 ratings. Kingsley Amis’s most popular book is Lucky Jim.
Oct 22, 1995 · Kingsley Amis. Best known novels of British writer Sir Kingsley William Amis include Lucky Jim (1954) and The Old Devils (1986). This English poet, critic, and teacher composed more than twenty-three collections, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered Martin Amis.
Oct 23, 1995 · Sir Kingsley Amis, the prolific British novelist, poet and critic, died yesterday at St. Pancras Hospital in London. He was 73 and lived in London. The Associated Press reported that he had...
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.
Kingsley Amis - New World Encyclopedia. Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English poet, academic, novelist, and teacher. Amis was considered an anti-authority revolutionary, as well as one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s (though he denied his participation). In time some came to consider him a reactionary.
A novelist, poet and satirist, he wrote more than twenty novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, as well as literary criticism. In 2008, the Times ranked Kingsley Amis 13th on their list of the 50 greatest British authors since 1945. He is the father of the acclaimed British novelist Martin Amis.
