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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 (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London) was a novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s.
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Oct 22, 1995 · 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.
Jun 2, 2019 · Beginning in a world filled with verbal jokes, masquerades, and incidents, Amis’s view of life grew increasingly pessimistic until he arrived at a fearfully grim vision of a nightmare world filled with hostility, violence, sexual abuse, and self-destruction.
Kingsley Amis. 1922–1995. Poet, novelist, and critic Kingsley Amis was born in London, England in 1922. Amis’s father William was a clerk at Colman’s Mustard, earning the family a position among the lower middle class. Amis, an only child, characterized his childhood as bland and insular.
Kingsley Amis has 151 books on Goodreads with 135525 ratings. Kingsley Amis’s most popular book is Lucky Jim.
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