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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.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller
Series
Jim Dixon
Lucky Jim (1954)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
I Like it Here (1958)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)
Lucky Jim (1954)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
I Like it Here (1958)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)
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)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
Jake's Thing (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)
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)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
Jake's Thing (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)
Omnibus
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)
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)
Series contributed to
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)
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)
Non fiction
New Maps of Hell (1960)
What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
Tennyson (1972)
On Drink (1972)
Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
Harold's Years (1977)
An Arts Policy? (1979)
Every Day Drinking (1983)
How's Your Glass? (1984)
The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
The Amis Collection (1990)
Memoirs (1991)
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The King's English (1997)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
Tennyson (1972)
On Drink (1972)
Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
Harold's Years (1977)
An Arts Policy? (1979)
Every Day Drinking (1983)
How's Your Glass? (1984)
The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
The Amis Collection (1990)
Memoirs (1991)
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The King's English (1997)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
Anthologies containing stories by Kingsley Amis
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
Short stories
| My Enemy's Enemy [short story] (1955) | |||
| Court of Inquiry (1956) | |||
| The 2003 Claret (1958) | |||
| Moral Fibre (1958) | |||
| Hemingway in Space (1960) | |||
| Something Strange (1960) | |||
| All the Blood Within Me (1962) | |||
| I Spy Strangers (1962) | |||
| The Friends of Plonk (1964) | |||
| Dear Illusion [short story] (1972) | |||
| Mason's Life (1972) | |||
| Too Much Trouble (1972) | |||
| Who or What Was It? (1972) | |||
| The Darkwater Hall Mystery [short story] (1978) | |||
| The House on the Headland (1979) | |||
| To See the Sun (1980) |
Awards
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Books about Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis recommends
The Other Side of the Sky (1958)
Arthur C Clarke
"Science fiction of the finest quality: original, imaginative, disturbing."
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959)
Brian Aldiss
"...Takes us far from the here-and-now into regions of sharply-flavoured eeriness."
The Drowned World (1962)
J G Ballard
"Ballard is one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."
Day Million (1970)
Frederik Pohl
"The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."
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."
The Alternative Detective (1993)
(Hob Draconian, book 1)
Robert Sheckley
"Always he crackles with ideas."
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