Kingsley Amis
English author, critic and teacher (1922–1995) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986).[1]
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Born | Kingsley William Amis (1922-04-16)16 April 1922 Clapham, London, England |
Died | 22 October 1995(1995-10-22) (aged 73) London, England |
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Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
Period | 1947–1995 |
Genre | Fiction, fictional prose |
Literary movement | Angry young men |
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Children | Philip Amis Martin Amis Sally Amis |
His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century". In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.[2] He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis.