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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- October 22, 1995
- April 16, 1922
- Lucky Jim.
- The Old Devils.
- The Green Man.
- The Alteration.
Jan 12, 2024 · Kingsley Amis, right, with his wife, fellow novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard on the West Pier during their honeymoon in Brighton, UK, 6th July 1965. The couple were married a week earlier...
Learn about the life and career of Kingsley Amis, a poet, novelist, and critic who wrote humorous but biting satire of British society and culture. Explore his novels, such as Lucky Jim, The Old Devils, and The Alteration, and his poetry, such as The Poems of Kingsley Amis.
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.
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Apr 23, 2022 · “Kingsley’s novels”, says Martin Amis in his memoir “Experience”, “seemed to me in moral retreat.” Yet just when he had been written off, he was saved by his friends.
