Kingsley Amis
Novelist, Author
1922 – 1995
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Who was Kingsley Amis?
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He was the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
In 2008, The Times ranked Kingsley Amis ninth on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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- Born
- Apr 16, 1922
Clapham - Also known as
- Kingsley William Amis
- Sir Kingsley William Amis
- Robert Markham
- Kingley Amis
- Parents
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
(1965 - 1983) - Hilary Bardwell
(1948/01 - 1965)
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- St John's College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- City of London School
- Died
- Oct 22, 1995
London - Resting place
- Golders Green Crematorium
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on July 23, 2013
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