biography
| name: |
Amis, Sir Kingsley (William)
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pronunciation:
[aymis]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922–95)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became a lecturer in English literature at Swansea (1948–61) and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1961–3). He achieved huge success with his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), the story of a comic anti-hero in a provincial university; Jim appeared again as a small-town librarian in That Uncertain Feeling (1955), and as a provincial author abroad in I Like It Here (1958). After the death of Ian Fleming, he wrote a James Bond novel, Colonel Sun (1968), under the pseudonym of Robert Markham, as well as The James Bond Dossier (1965). His later novels include Jake's Thing (1978), The Old Devils (1986, Booker), The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990), The Russian Girl (1992), and You Can't Do Both (1994). The Letters of Kingsley Amis (ed. Zachary Leader) were published in 2000. He was married (1965–83) to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, and was knighted in 1990. |
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