the novelist Martin Amis. Kingsley Amis was born on 16 April 1922 in Clapham, south London, the only child of William Robert Amis (1889–1963), a clerk...

inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis. Amis influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st...

24 June 2010), known as Hilly, was the first wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis. When her third husband, Alistair Boyd, became Chief...

Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world." He drew a connection between Amis and his father (the novelist Kingsley Amis). Eagleton...

Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish Colonel Sun in March 1968. The book was the first continuation James Bond novel...

novels. There have also been other authors who wrote one book each: Kingsley Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham), Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver...

The following is a list of primary antagonists in the James Bond novels and film series. Comic strip serials released by the Daily Express between 1958...

1990), Nigerian footballer Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English novelist Kingsley Amuneke (born 1980), Nigerian footballer Kingsley Armstrong (born 1962), Saint...

other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery...

Cheltenham Literary Festival, Howard met the novelist Kingsley Amis. Both were married at the time. Amis became Howard's third husband in a marriage that lasted...

also known as Gladsmuir and Gladsmuir House, was the home of novelists Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) and Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) on the south side...

were either continuation novels or short stories. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of Robert Markham, who produced one novel...

he met Kingsley Amis, who encouraged his taste for ridicule and irreverence and who remained a close friend throughout Larkin's life. Amis, Larkin and...

in the 1950s. The group's leading figures included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis; other popular figures included John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, and John...

Eco 2003, p. 40. Black 2005, p. 19. Fleming & Welsh 2006, p. v. Amis 1966, p. 112. Amis 1966, pp. 111–112. Black 2005, p. 3. Fleming & Higson 2006, p. 227...

Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for...

collections of her adult poetry have been published, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, Serious Concerns in 1992, If I Don't Know in 2001, Family Values...

Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn...

Kingsley Amis (2001) was assembled and edited by the American literary critic Zachary Leader. It is a collection of more than 800 letters from Amis to...

commissioned or permitted new Bond works to be published. In 1968, Kingsley Amis published Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". The company...

Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Colonel Sun is the first James...

The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1986. It won the Booker Prize. Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, returns to his native...

Johnson. The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis. The award-winning The Great...

biography of Kingsley Amis, Richard Bradford devotes a chapter to The Alteration, its origins and context within the author's life. In 1973, Amis had heard...

authors Martin Amis, whom he had briefly met at Oxford, as well as Julian Barnes and James Fenton, with whom he had shared a house in Oxford. Amis described...

Martin Amis, continued to comment on this subject. Amis is the son of the British novelist, and Larkin's long-standing friend, Kingsley Amis. While primarily...

latter's quinine which added a distinctive taste,[page needed] while Kingsley Amis thought the original drink too bitter and improved by substituting Lillet...

spelled bellfrey, belfrey, and finally belfry. In larger towns, explains Kingsley Amis, watchmen placed in towers were also on the lookout for fires. Though...

The Russian Girl is a 1992 comedy novel by Kingsley Amis published by Hutchinson & Co. Set in the early nineties the novel describes in comic detail events...

Palfrey at the Claremont received favourable reviews on its publication. Kingsley Amis described it as a "continuously fascinating novel, always pushing the...