Kingsley Amis
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Sir Kingsley William Amis (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. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986).
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Partial bibliography
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Poetry
- 1947 Bright November
- 1953 A Frame of Mind
- 1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits
- 1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956
- 1962 The Evans County
- 1968 A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967
- 1979 Collected Poems 1944–78
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Fiction
- Novels
- c. 1948 The Legacy (unpublished)
- 1954 Lucky Jim
- 1955 That Uncertain Feeling
- 1958 I Like It Here
- 1960 Take a Girl Like You
- 1963 One Fat Englishman
- 1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest)
- 1966 The Anti-Death League
- 1968 Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure (pseud. Robert Markham)
- 1968 I Want It Now
- 1969 The Green Man
- 1971 Girl, 20
- 1973 The Riverside Villas Murder
- 1974 Ending Up
- 1975 The Crime of the Century
- 1976 The Alteration
- 1978 Jake's Thing
- 1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek
- 1984 Stanley and the Women
- 1986 The Old Devils
- 1988 Difficulties with Girls
- 1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill
- 1991 We Are All Guilty
- 1992 The Russian Girl
- 1994 You Can't Do Both
- 1995 The Biographer's Moustache
- c. 1995 Black and White (unfinished)Template:Sfn
- Short fiction collections
- 1962 My Enemy's Enemy
- 1980 Collected Short Stories
- 1991 Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories
- Other short fiction
- 1960 "Hemingway in Space" (short story), Punch, December 1960
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Non-fiction
- 1957 Socialism and the Intellectuals, a Fabian Society pamphlet
- 1960 New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
- 1965 The James Bond Dossier
- 1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (pseud. Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner)
- 1970 What Became of Jane Austen?, and Other Questions
- 1972 On Drink
- 1974 Rudyard Kipling and His World
- 1983 Everyday Drinking
- 1984 How's Your Glass?
- 1990 The Amis Collection
- 1991 Memoirs
- 1997 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (name in part a pun as he was sometimes called "Kingers" or "The King" by friends and family, as told by his son Martin in his memoir Experience)
- 2001 The Letters of Kingsley Amis, Edited by Zachary Leader
- 2008 Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis, Introduction by Christopher Hitchens (an omnibus edition of On Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass?)
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Editor
- 1961-66 Spectrum anthology series (ed. with Robert Conquest)(Five volumes)
- 1978 The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (ed.)
- 1981 The Golden Age of Science Fiction (ed.)
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See also
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