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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.
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.
Kingsley Amis was born in London. He is renowned as one of the finest English comic novelists of the second half of the 20th century. 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.
Kingsley Amis has 150 books on Goodreads with 136788 ratings. Kingsley Amis’s most popular book is Lucky Jim.
Amis wrote humorous but biting satire aimed at the pretensions of class society and the weakness of the individual. His heroes are typically cynical, condemnatory individuals who combine intelligence and wit with curiously lowbrow or middle-class values.
Apr 23, 2022 · Kingsley Amis could sit in his study all day, with just his flamboyant characters for company, but when the sun set he collapsed into panic if he was alone. The solution? Parties, lovers,...
