
	Where results make sense

Topic: Kingsley Amis

Related Topics

John Gardner (thriller writer)

Raymond Benson

Martin Amis

James Bond

The Man with the Golden Gun

Penelope Fitzgerald

Sir John Squire

Science fiction

Ian Fleming

John Wilmot, Lord Rochester

Brigid Brophy

Hemingway

Lucky Jim

Spy fiction

Derek Robinson

	Kingsley Amis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kingsley Amis was born in London, educated at the City of London School and St.
		Amis was twice married, first in 1948 to Hilary Bardwell, then to novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, in 1965; they divorced in 1983.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingsley_Amis (1165 words)

	Amis, Kingsley (William) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amis, Kingsley (William)
		Amis was the son of a clerk in south London.
		He married twice, first in 1948 to Hilary, the mother of his two sons, including the novelist Martin Amis, and a daughter.
		After his death, The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000) was edited by Zachary Leader.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Amis,+Kingsley+(William) (330 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Kingsley Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Amis remained sceptical of the critical assemblages with which he was associated (Movement Poetry; Angry Young Men), his literary values often confirmed the traditional, realist precepts of these groups.
		During this period, Amis was engaged in enjoying the fruits of his 40-year career, publishing numerous non-fiction books that afforded an intimate glimpse into the literary preferences of one of England’s most discerning and opinionated writers.
		Amis was also knighted in 1990, and in 1991, his Memoirs appeared, fanning new brush-fires of scandal.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5102 (2204 words)

	Focus on Amis
		Amis' ascent from the obscurity of lower-middle-class London was largely self-willed.
		He become a man of outrageous wit and genius, and gained reputation as a "supreme clubman, boozer and blimp." A radical in his young adulthood, Amis was later know for his conservative critique of contemporary life and manners.
		Amis was born in London as the only son of a business clerk.
	www.billbrandt.com /Shop/Focus/focusonamis.html (224 words)

	WHY LUCKY JIM TURNED RIGHT'- AN OBITUARY OF KINGSLEY AMIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Kingsley Amis died last year at the age of 73, the general verdict was that he had been the greatest comic novelist of his generation.
		Kingsley Amis was born in 1922 in south London, the only son of lower middle class parents.
		Amis evidently disliked both the snobbishly aristocratic cultural ambiance at Oxford and the antiquated English syllabus he was forced to study (it is clear from the Memoirs that he did not much like teaching English either).
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj70/amis.htm (7052 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Lucky Jim \| Kingsley Amis
		Larkin and Amis remained close throughout their lives, engaging in spirited correspondence (recently collected in The Letters of Kingsley Amis) rife with pun-filled riffs on literature, women and work.
		Famously promiscuous, Amis was matched in his exploits by Hilly, who nearly ran off with a newspaper man in 1956.
		Amis spent his last years changing his political stripes from left to right and writing scathing criticism of nearly everything that crossed his path.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/amis.html (707 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		In 1994 and 1995, Amis underwent a technicolor, wide-screen epic of a midlife crisis.
		All Amis asks of Hitchens is "no sinister balls," their youthful trope for "no vehement expression of a left-wing tendency." Comically, disastrously, Hitchens spends the entire dinner in a pro-Palestinian assault on the state of Israel.
		Amis is at his best on the subject of his gruesome dental saga, which occupies many painful pages.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-09-01/books_vsbr.html (1021 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Take a Girl Like You \| Kingley Amis
		The only son of a business clerk, British novelist Kingsley Amis was born in 1922 in London.
		After his divorce from Bardwell, Amis was married to the novelist Elisabeth Jane Howard from 1965 to 1983.
		Amis was knighted in 1990, and died in 1995 at the age of 73.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/takeagirl/amis.html (495 words)

	LRB \| Ian Hamilton : Sorry to go on like this (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Philip Larkin first met Kingsley Amis at Oxford in the early 1940s, he was appalled, he later said, to find himself 'for the first time in the presence of a talent greater than mine'.
		Amis, in his Memoirs, also wonders if Larkin's taste for humorous invective was part of an overall distaste for 'intimacy': the jokes were perhaps strategies for keeping people, keeping even his 'best friend', at a distance.
		Amis talked a lot in later years about his fear of going mad, and from time to time these letters do seem almost manic in their stop-me-if-you-can facetiousness.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v22/n11/hami01_.html (2712 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis - Paperback
		Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure.
		Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observations so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the classes with which his novel is concerned."
		Amis' descriptions of people and things (Dixon's hangover, his violent and childish fantasies, Bertrand's eyes, etc.) are so unique and delightful that I was often laughing out loud while marvelling at his literary dexterity.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0140186301 (804 words)

	Sir Kingsley Amis
		Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London on April 16 1922, and after attending Oxford University, served in the Royal Signals Corps of British Army for 3 years during World War II.
		Since Amis knew Fleming's work well, he was contracted by Glidrose, the copyright-holders of Fleming's books, to continue the story of 007.
		Amis died on October 22, 1995 at the age of 73, from injuries received in a fall.
	www.klast.net /bond/amis.html (443 words)

	Kingsley Amis Papers
		Kingsley Amis (1922-) is the author of seventeen novels, three collections of poetry, over twenty short stories, and ten books of social or literary criticism.
		In 1942 Amis was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Signal Corps.
		The Kingsley Amis collection, 1933-1968, consists of typescript and holograph drafts and notes for his works.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/amis.html (749 words)

	The Southern Review: Lucky Jim as I remember him. (Kingsley Amis)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Writer Kingsley Amis is remembered by a long time friend as a talented and complicated man with a keen intellect and a passionate spirit.
		Kingsley changed little from the beginning of his career in the 1950s to his death at age 73.
		Kingsley ami's death at seventy-three leaves me with old images and the need to sort through them.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18875113&... (215 words)

	Kingsley Amis and the Problems of Humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amis has said that his protagonist is "a bastard to a very large extent, and he understands it and yet he can’t be different.
		Amis had authorized a biography by an acquaintance named Eric Jacobs, and the results were a workmanlike life story and strained relations between author and subject.
		What seems true and most important to a consideration of Kingsley Amis, humorist and moralist, is that rarely if ever is the voice or perspective of the protagonist, however powerfully presented, permitted unchallenged sovereignty; competing viewpoints rise and shine.
	www.williams.edu /English/faculty/rbell/AmisIntro.html (6429 words)

	NIH: Kingsley Amis
		Knowing why Amis couldn't keep it in his pants is of no possible value to me. I didn't even know the man. I didn't even know he couldn't keep it in his pants.
		To be fair to Amis, much of the book consists of gracious and balanced tributes to people he had known, but the problem is that more of it consists of unbecoming and unbalanced slagging.
		Amis does not seem to me to be a great writer, although fifty years from now history may have shown that judgment to be hasty.
	www.interlog.com /~jfitzger/amis.htm (968 words)

	Amis, Martin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AMIS, MARTIN [Amis, Martin] ā´mĬs, 1949-, English novelist; son of Kingsley Amis.
		The younger Amis, who turned from literary journalism to fiction, invites comparison with his father through his choice of career and style.
		Martin Amis and the Postmodern Suicide: Tracing the Postnuclear Narrative at the Fin de Millennium.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Amis-M1ar.asp (494 words)

	Kingsley Amis: The Alteration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kingsley Amis's alternate history is set in a world in which the Protestant Reformation was severely crippled in its infancy when Martin Luther became Pope Germanian I. The novel is set as the English a mourning the death of King Stephen III in 1976.
		Kingsley also demonstrates a knowledge not only of the rules of the game of alternate history but of alternate history itself.
		In the end, Amis briefly leaves his focal characters and turns his attention to the pope.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/amis.html (492 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Amis, Kingsley
		Eric Jacobs completed a biography in 1998; Martin Amis is currently working on a memoir about his relationship with his father ("almost a pro bono duty").
		The Letters of Kingsley Amis overshadow Martin Amis in death just as the old devil did in life
		Kingsley Amis was one of the century's most prolific letter writers, so editing his correspondence was never going to be easy.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-5,00.html (379 words)

	Amis Biography Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amis has long objected to the identification of an author's characters with the author, and he had particular difficulties his entire career with being identified with Jim Dixon (Lucky Jim).
		I would say that Jacobs is convincing in finding aspects of Amis` character in aspects of Maurice Allingham, protagonist of The Green Man, and I found myself speculating on some potential similarities between the protagonist's wife in The Russian Girl, and with Amis` apparent late-marriage feelings about his second wife, the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.
		In general, this book is well-written, and does a good job portraying the main events of Amis' non-writing life, as well as drawing a pretty good portrait of the man himself.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/amisbio.htm (579 words)

	Amazon.com: The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage: Books: Kingsley Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amis is deadly funny, with a certain snootiness and condescension that are simultaneously repugnant and heroic.
		Amis is best known for his novels such as Lucky Jim and the Old Devils, but he was also a skilled observer and commentator on late 20th Century life and language.
		Amis in his book is very careful not to be too pedantic with his comments.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312206577?v=glance (1786 words)

	Kingsley Amis - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book.
		In 1995 Eric Jacobs published Kingsley Amis, a biography of the distinguished writer, on which Amis himself collaborated.
		Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000000966,00.html?... (245 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| The laddish letters of Kingsley Amis
		Amis and Larkin were adolescent companions at Oxford, drawn together by a mutually iconoclastic sense of fun, a taste for jazz and alcohol and Amis's gift for mimicry.
		Introduced to her parents, Amis was horrified to meet a brother who liked Tudor music and a father who did folk-dancing - characters he put straight into his satire Lucky Jim eight years later.
		Amis told Larkin: "It's hard not to look upon it as faute de mieux though this feeling is decreasing slightly...
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,157750,00.html (984 words)

	Kingsley Amis @ Filmbug
		Sir Kingsley Amis, was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
		The novel won the Somerset Maugham award for fiction and Amis was placed in a group of young writers labeled Angry Young Men.
		Tell us what you think of Kingsley Amis in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.com /db/30642 (355 words)

	KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995)
		A recent disaster—the death of Sir Kingsley Amis at 73—drove home at once deathless memories of Lucky Jim, his funniest book, and the realization that there would be no reprise.
		Actually, I had stopped trying to keep up with Amis' near-book- a-year pace nearly 20 years ago with Jake's Thing, a novel that is built on a single joke which is not so jokeful to some of us older parties.
		Amis' complaints against women so dominated his fiction that by 1984, after Lucky Jim had been followed by a dozen lesser books, he was unable to find an American publisher for Stanley and the Women in the United States.
	www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/November95/luckyj.htm (959 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Letters of Kingsley Amis: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Obviously, the most 'important' correspondent is Larkin, and it's a shame that Amis lost many of the letters he received from Larkin, as a separate volume of Amis-Larkin correspondence would allow a reduction in the size of Prof.
		Like Larkin, Amis is often a misogynist and most certainly an anti-Semite but one feels compelled to forgive and blame these opinions on his times rather than on him.
		The later Amis is a very sad spectacle, pontificating in the press, a fat drunk caricature of himself.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006387837 (1053 words)

	Amis, Sir Kingsley on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AMIS, SIR KINGSLEY [Amis, Sir Kingsley], 1922-95, English novelist.
		She is also noted for The Cazalet Chronicles, four novels that follow a British family in the World War II era— The Light Years (1990), Marking Time (1991), Confusion (1993), and Casting Off (1995).
		The exuberant and wicked correspondent that was Kingsley Amis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/amis-k1in.asp (547 words)

	Sir Kingsley Amis -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amis was educated at the City of London School and at St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1949).
		In his own lifetime the clergyman Charles Kingsley was known chiefly as a social reformer.
		Disregarding the conventions of her time, Englishwoman Mary Kingsley journeyed through western and equatorial Africa and became the first European to enter parts of Gabon.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007187?tocId=9007187&query=martin (634 words)

	Kingsley Amis
		The best thing about Amis is that he was deeply against meanness, pomposity, and sloppiness in thinking and writing.
		At any rate, Amis was an atheist who lived in fear (according to his son's autobiographical Experience) and who described his atheism as in fact more a hatred of God than a denial of His existence.
		Amis is responding not so much to what Christians say in defense of God, as one might think, but to what the Bible itself says about God.
	academics.vmi.edu /PSY_dr/kingsley_amis.htm (635 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)