Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. ...

Biography

Kingsley Amis was born in London, educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford, where he met Philip Larkin, with whom Amis formed the most important friendship of his life. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis completed university in 1947, and was a lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea (1948–61), and at Cambridge (1961–63). London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... The present red-brick City of London School beside the River Thames. ... St Johns College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. ... The Royal Corps of Signals (sometimes referred to incorrectly as the Royal Signal Corps and often known simply as the Royal Signals, R Signals or R Sigs) is one of the arms (combat support corps) of the British Army. ... The University of Wales, Swansea was founded in 1920 as University College, Swansea, the fourth college of the University of Wales, following the report of the Haldane Commission into University Education in Wales. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is considered by many to be an exemplary novel of Fifties Britain. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction and Amis was associated with the writers labelled Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim is a seminal work, the first English novel featuring an ordinary man as anti-hero. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement. Christine (Sharon Acker) and Jim (Ian Carmichael) only moments away from their first kiss Lucky Jim is a comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954. ... The 1950s were a decade that spanned the years 1950 through 1959. ... The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. ... Angry Young Men (or Angries for short) is a journalistic catchphrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s. ... A seminal work [semen = seed (from the Latin seminalis)] is a work from which other works come--it is an engendering work which is so important in its ideas or technique that other people take these up and create new works too. ... In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ... The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest. ...

Like Philip Larkin, Amis was a keen jazz fan, with a particular enthusiasm for the American musicians Sidney Bechet, Henry "Red" Allen and Pee Wee Russell (about whom Amis and Larkin corresponded extensively -see 'The Letters of Kingsley Amis', edited by Zachery Leader, HarperCollins, 2000). Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. ... Henry Red Allen (January 7, 1906 - April 17, 1967) was an influential jazz trumpeter. ... Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, (27 March 1906 - 15 February 1969) was a jazz musician. ...

As a young man, Kingsley Amis was a vocal Communist and a member of the Communist Party. He became disillusioned with Communism, breaking with it when the USSR invaded Hungary in 1956. Thereafter, Amis became stridently anti-communist, and conservative. He discusses his political change of heart in the essay "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right" (1967), and it percolates into later works such as his dystopian novel Russian Hide and Seek (1980). The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Amis was an atheist. For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ...

Amis's novel about a group of retired friends, The Old Devils, won the Booker Prize in 1986. He received a knighthood in 1990. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Amis was twice married, first in 1948 to Hilary Bardwell, then to novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, in 1965; they divorced in 1983. Amis spent his last years sharing the house of his first wife and her third husband. He had three children, including the novelist Martin Amis, who movingly wrote of his father's life and decline in his memoir Experience. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Science fiction

Amis's critical interest in science fiction led to New Maps of Hell (1960), his interpretation of the genre's literary qualities. He was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell he coined the term "comic inferno", describing a type of humorous dystopia particularly as exemplified in the works of Robert Sheckley. With the Sovietologist Robert Conquest, Amis produced the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–IV, which drew heavily upon the 1950s magazine Astounding Science Fiction. He wrote three science fiction novels, The Alteration, an alternate history novel set in a twentieth-century Britain where the Reformation never occurred; Russian Hide-and-Seek, an alternate history set in near-future Britain where Russia had conquered Britain after the Second World War, and the supernatural-horror novel, The Green Man, which the BBC adapted for television. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A dystopia (alternatively, cacotopia[1], kakotopia or anti-utopia) is a fictional society that is usually seen as the antithesis of an utopia. ... Frederik Pohl (born November 26, 1919) is a noted American science fiction writer and editor, with a career spanning over sixty years. ... Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 23, 1923 - March 21, 1958 -- pen-names: Cecil Corwin and S.D. Gottesman;) was a science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. ... Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928, New York City – December 9, 2005, Poughkeepsie, New York) was an American Jewish author. ... Kremlinology is the study of Soviet politics and policies, named after the Kremlin, the seat of the Soviet government. ... Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15, 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of his classic account of Stalins purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror. ... Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... Written in 1969, The Green Man (ISBN 0897332202), is a ghost story by the noted British author Kingsley Amis, referring to not only the name of the inn owned by the philandering, alcoholic protagonist, but also his haunting by this spirit, among others. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ...

A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Amis, C.S.Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge in December 1962. A transcript appears under the title 'Unreal Estates' in the collection "On Stories" by C.S.Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar mostly resident in England. ... Brian Aldiss at 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar mostly resident in England. ...

James Bond

Kingsley Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's creation, James Bond, in the 1960s, writing critical works connected with the fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. He wrote the popular The James Bond Dossier under his own name. Later, he wrote, The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy, under the pseudonym "Lt Col. William 'Bill' Tanner", Tanner being M's Chief of Staff in many of Fleming's Bond novels. Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... The James Bond Dossier (1965, Jonathan Cape) by Kingsley Amis is a critical analysis of Ian Flemings James Bond novels. ... M is the title and code letter for James Bonds boss and fictional head of the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6. ...

It is widely claimed that, after Fleming died in 1964 following completion of an early draft of The Man with the Golden Gun, the publisher commissioned Amis and possibly other writers to finish the manuscript. Bond historians and Fleming biographers have, in recent years, debunked this theory, indicating that no such ghostwriter was ever employed, although Amis is known to have provided suggestions on how to improve the manuscript which were rejected. (See here for more on the controversy and speculation.) 2004 Penguin Books paperback edition The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and final James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and published posthumously in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1965. ... A ghostwriter is a writer who writes under someone elses name, with their consent. ... 2004 Penguin Books paperback edition The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and final James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and published posthumously in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1965. ...

In 1968 the owners of the James Bond property, Glidrose Publications, attempted to continue the series by hiring different novelists, all writing under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Kingsley Amis was the first to write a Robert Markham novel, Colonel Sun, but no further books were published under that name. It is widely believed that Amis had planned to write a second Bond novel but was talked out of it. Colonel Sun was adapted as a comic strip in the Daily Express in 1969. In a Titan Books reprint volume of the comic strip published in 2005, an introductory chapter indicated that Amis planned to write a short story featuring an elderly Bond coming out of retirement for one last mission, but Glidrose refused him permission to write it. Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. ... 1978 reprint by Panther Books of the first and only James Bond novel by Robert Markham. Robert Markham is a pseudonym created by Glidrose Publications in the mid-1960s. ... 1978 reprint by Panther Books. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper. ... Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels. ...

Partial bibliography

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Kingsley Amis

1947 Amis's first collection of poems, Bright November

1953 A Frame of Mind

1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits.

1954 Lucky Jim, Amis' first novel

1955 That Uncertain Feeling

1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956.

1958 I Like it Here

1960 Take a Girl Like You

1960 New Maps of Hell

1960 Hemingway in Space (short story), Punch Dec 1960

1962 My Enemy's Enemy

1962 The Evans County

1963 One Fat Englishman

1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest).

1965 The James Bond Dossier

1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007, under the pseudonym "Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner"

1966 The Anti-Death League

1968 Colonel Sun, a James Bond novel, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham."

1968 I Want It Now

1969 The Green Man

1970 What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions

1971 Girl, 20

1972 On Drink

1973 The Riverside Villas Murders

1974 Ending Up

1974 Rudyard Kipling and his World

1976 The Alteration

1978 Jake's Thing

1979 Collected Poems 1944-78

1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek

1980 Collected Short Stories

1983 Every Day Drinking

1984 How's Your Glass?

1984 Stanley and the Women

1986 The Old Devils

1988 Difficulties With Girls

1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill

1990 The Amis Collection

1991 Memoirs

1991 Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories

1992 The Russian Girl

1994 The semi-autobiographical You Can't Do Both

1995 The Biographer's Moustache

1998 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

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Poets in The Amis Anthology: A Personal Choice of English Verse (1988)

Richard Aldington - Kenneth Allott - Matthew Arnold - Kenneth Ashley - W. H. Auden - William Barnes - Oliver Bayley - Hilaire Belloc - John Betjeman - Laurence Binyon - William Blake - Edmund Blunden - Rupert Brooke - Robert Browning - Robert Burns - Thomas Campbell - Thomas Campion - G. K. Chesterton - Hartley Coleridge - Robert Conquest - W. J. Cory - John Davidson - Donald Davie - C. Day Lewis - Walter De la Mare - Ernest Dowson - Michael Drayton - Lawrence Durrell - Jean Elliot - George Farewell - James Elroy Flecker - Thomas Ford - Roy Fuller - Robert Graves - Thomas Gray - Fulke Greville - Heath - Reginald Heber - Felicia Dorothea Hemans - W. E. Henley - George Herbert - Ralph Hodgson - Thomas Hood - Teresa Hooley - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Henry Howard - T. E. Hulme - Leigh Hunt - Elizabeth Jennings - Samuel Johnson - John Keats - Henry King - Charles Kingsley - Rudyard Kipling - Philip Larkin - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - John Lydgate - H. F. Lyte - Louis MacNeice - Andrew Marvell - John Masefield - Alice Meynell - Harold Monro - William Morris - Edwin Muir - Henry Newbolt - Alfred Noyes - Wilfred Owen - Thomas Love Peacock - George Peele - Alexander Pope - Frederic Prokosch - Walter Ralegh - John Crowe Ransom - Christina Rossetti - Siegfried Sassoon - John Skelton - Robert Southey - Edmund Spenser - Sir John Squire - Robert Louis Stevenson - Sir John Suckling - Algernon Charles Swinburne - George Szirtes - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Dylan Thomas - Edward Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Francis Thompson - Anthony Thwaite - Chidiock Tichborne - Aurelian Townsend - W. J. Turner - Oscar Wilde - John Wilmot, Lord Rochester - Roger Woddis - Charles Wolfe - William Wordsworth - W. B. Yeats - Andrew Young Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. ... Kenneth Allott (1911-1973) was a Welsh poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. ... Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ... Christopher Isherwood (left) and W.H. Auden (right), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973) was an English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the 20th century. ... For the Nottinghamshire and England cricketer, see Billy Barnes Statue of William Barnes in Dorchester, Dorset, England William Barnes (1801 - 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. ... Photograph of Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (July 27, 1870 – July 16, 1953) was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. ... Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle class family in Edwardian London. ... Robert Laurence Binyon (August 10, 1869 at Lancaster, England – March 10, 1943 at Reading, Berkshire) was a British poet, dramatist and art scholar. ... William Blake (1807) William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... Edmund Charles Blunden (November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974), although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. ... A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915) was a British poet best known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War. ... Robert Browning Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright. ... 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Donald Alfred Davie (1922-1995) was an English poet and critic. ... Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27th April 1904-22nd May 1972) was a British poet. ... Walter John de la Mare, OM (April 25, 1873 - June 22, 1956), was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered (though not necessarily justly so) for his works for children. ... Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee, south-east of London. ... Michael Drayton (1563- December 23, 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. ... Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. ... Jean Elliot (1727 - March 29, 1805) was a Scottish poet, daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto. ... 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Ralph Hodgson (September 9, 1871 - November 3, 1962) was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. ... Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845) was a British humorist and poet. ... Teresa Hooley (1888-?), known mostly for a war poem A War Film about World War I, was a pseudonym of Mrs. ... Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 - June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. ... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Henry Howard may refer to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 - January 13, 1547), an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry. ... 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Thomas Love Peacock (October 18, 1785 - January 23, 1866) was an English satirist and author. ... George Peele (1558 - c. ... Alexander Pope, an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism and Rape of the Lock Pope, circa 1727. ... Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1908 – June 6, 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. ... Alternatively, Professor Walter Raleigh was a scholar and author circa 1900. ... John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 - July 3, 1974) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator. ... Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti. ... Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. ... John Skelton (c. ... Robert Southey, English poet Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called Lake Poets. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries such as William Wordsworth, Southeys verse enjoys enduring popularity. ... Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. ... For British late 20th century musician of the same name, see John Squire Sir John Squire (John Collings Squire) (1882–1958) was an English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ... Sir John Suckling (February 10, 1609 - 1642) was an English Cavalier poet whose best known poem may be Ballad Upon a Wedding. He was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twickenham, Middlesex, and baptized there on February 10, 1609. ... Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 _ April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ... George Szirtes (born 1948) is a Hungarian-born poet, writing in English. ... Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ... Do you mean: Edward Thomas, the English poet, killed at Arras in 1917 Corporal Edward Thomas, who fired the first British shots in World War I This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000) was a Welsh poet and Anglican Clergyman, noted for his nationalism and spirituality. ... Francis Thompson (December 18, 1859 - November 13, 1907) was an English poet. ... Anthony Simon Thwaite (born 1930) is a British poet and writer. ... Chidiock Tichborne (1558–September 20, 1586) is remembered as an English conspirator and poet. ... Aurelian Townsend (1583?-1643) was an English poet. ... Walter James Turner (1884 – 1947) was born in Melbourne, Australia, but left for London to pursue a career in writing. ... Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ... John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680) was an English nobleman, a friend of King Charles II of England, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. ... Charles Wolfe (1791 - 1823) was an Irish poet. ... William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... This page is not about the poet Andrew Young (1823 - 1901) Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 - 1971) was a Scottish poet and writer on botanical subjects, and a Presbyterian minister who later became an Anglican clergyman. ...

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