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   Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.

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   Mar 19, 2023 · Kingsley Amis: Mason’s Life. ‘May I join you?’. The medium-sized man with the undistinguished clothes and the blank, anonymous face looked up at Pettigrew, who, glass of beer in hand, stood facing him across the small corner table.

4. www.theparisreview.org › interviews › 3772The Art of Fiction No. 59 - The Paris Review

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   Kingsley Amis, the former Angry Young Man, lives in a large, early-nineteenth-century house beside a wooded common. To reach it, one makes a journey similar to that described by the narrator of Girl, 20 when he visits Sir Roy Vandervane: first by tube to the end of the Northern L...

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6. www.britannica.com › biography › Kingsley-AmisKingsley Amis | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   Kingsley Amis (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London) was a novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s.

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   As he is fairly low on the middle-brow chain, Kingsley Amis really should not be here but there are three reasons for including him. Firstly, he was one of the earliest English writers to recognise the importance of science fiction ( New Maps of Hell is an early study).

8. foxedquarterly.com › kingsley-amis-the-green-manKingsley Amis | The Green Man | Slightly Foxed literary review

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   Dec 1, 2008 · The monsters that these men summon and that eventually devour them are not wholly tangible and are all the more terrifying for that, constructed out of thick cobwebs, curious old pictures, oddly carved furniture, bedsheets, earthworks or old and twisted trees.

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   Who is Kingsley Amis?

   • Kingsley Amis (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London) was a novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. Amis was educated at the City of London School and at St. John’s College, Oxford (B.A., 1949).

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   Where does Kingsley Amis live?

   • Kingsley Amis, the former Angry Young Man, lives in a large, early-nineteenth-century house beside a wooded common. To reach it, one makes a journey similar to that described by the narrator of Girl, 20 when he visits Sir Roy Vandervane: first by tube to the end of the Northern L...

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   Why did Amis sit on the edge of a sofa?

   • We talked for about two hours, from eleven-fifteen until one-fifteen, Amis perched on the edge of a sofa rather than sitting back in it so as not to aggravate a troublesome disk. He chose his words carefully, sometimes pausing to think things out, but rarely needing to rephrase an answer.

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   Is Amis still alive?

   • Amis was an Angry Young Man and a communist in his youth but became very much a boring old fart in his old age. Most of the rest of his work is of little worth. He died in 1995. 1984 How’s Your Glass?

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    Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English poet, academic, novelist, and teacher. Amis was considered an anti-authority revolutionary, as well as one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s (though he denied his participation).