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Kingsley Amis

(Kingsley William Amis)

(1922 - 1995)
Father of Martin Amis, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard

aka Robert Markham, William Tanner

Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, 'Lucky Jim', burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'angry young men'. He went on to write over twenty novels (winning the Booker Prize in 1986 for 'The Old Devils'), and many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. He was knighted in 1991. His last novel, 'The Biographer's Moustache', was published in September 1995.

Awards: Booker (1986), Campbell (1977), SoA (1955) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller

Series

Jim Dixon
   Lucky Jim (1954)
   That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
   I Like it Here (1958)
   Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)

Jenny Bunn
1. Take a Girl Like You (1960)
2. Difficulties with Girls (1988)

Novels

   My Enemy's Enemy (1962)
   One Fat Englishman (1963)
   The Egyptologists (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
   The Anti-Death League (1966)
   I Want It Now (1968)
   The Green Man (1969)
   Girl, 20 (1971)
   Dear Illusion (1972)
   The Riverside Villas Murder (1973)
   Ending Up (1974)
   The Crime of the Century (1975)
   The Alteration (1976)
   Jake's Thing (1978)
   The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
   Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980)
   Stanley and the Women (1984)
   The Old Devils (1986)
   The Folks That Live On the Hill (1990)
   We Are All Guilty (1991)
   The Russian Girl (1992)
   The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Collections

   Bright November (poems) (1947)
   A Frame of Mind (poems) (1953)
   Poems: Fantasy Portraits (poems) (1954)
   A Case of Samples (poems) (1956)
   Poems (poems) (1962)
   A Look Round the Estate (poems) (1967)
   Collected Poems 1944-1979 (poems) (1979)
   Collected Short Stories (1980)
   Mr Barrett's Secret (1993)
   Complete Stories (2011)

Anthologies edited

   Spectrum (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
   Spectrum 2 (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
   Spectrum 3 (1963) (with Robert Conquest)
   Spectrum 4 (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
   Spectrum 5 (1966) (with Robert Conquest)
   The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978)
   The Faber Popular Reciter (1978)
   The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
   The Amis Anthology (1988)
   The Pleasure of Poetry (1990)
   The Amis Story Anthology (1992)

Series contributed to

James Bond Non Fiction
The Book of Bond (1965) (as by William Tanner)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)

James Bond
15. Colonel Sun (1968) (as by Robert Markham)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Kingsley Amis

Sherlock (2015)
edited by
Otto Penzler

The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares (2000)
edited by
Dennis Pepper

The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
The British Way
(Road to Science Fiction, book 5)
edited by
James Gunn

More books

Awards

	1986 Booker Prize : The Old Devils
	1977 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : The Alteration
	1955 Somerset Maugham Award : Lucky Jim

Award nominations

	1978 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Jake's Thing
	1974 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Ending Up

Kingsley Amis recommends

The Alternative Detective (1993)
(Hob Draconian, book 1)
Robert Sheckley
"Always he crackles with ideas."

The Xanadu Talisman (1981)
(Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, book 9)
Peter O'Donnell
"One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."

Day Million (1970)
Frederik Pohl
"The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."