• 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world." He drew a connection between Amis and his father (the novelist Kingsley Amis). Eagleton...
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  • 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...
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  • in the 1950s. The group's leading figures included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis; other popular figures included John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, and John...
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  • novels. There have also been other authors who wrote one book each: Kingsley Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham), Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver...
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  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (category Amis family)
    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...
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  • commissioned or permitted new Bond works to be published. In 1968, Kingsley Amis published Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". The company...
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  • 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...
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  • 1990), Nigerian footballer Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English novelist Kingsley Amuneke (born 1980), Nigerian footballer Kingsley Armstrong (born 1962), Saint...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • The James Bond Dossier (category Books by Kingsley Amis)
    The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator...
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  • Colonel Sun (category Novels by Kingsley Amis)
    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...
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    were either continuation novels or short stories. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of Robert Markham, who produced one novel...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery...
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  • The Old Devils (category Novels by Kingsley Amis)
    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...
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  • Lucky Jim (category Novels by Kingsley Amis)
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn...
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  • Lloyd) Mary Allen Ian Hogg Glenda Jackson Joanne Lindsay Hugh Sullivan Kingsley Amis Peggy Ashcroft James Cameron Stokely Carmichael Tom Driberg Paul Scofield...
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  • 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...
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  • The Alteration (category Novels by Kingsley Amis)
    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...
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    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...
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  • even – must be regarded as salutary." Writing in The Observer in 1960, Kingsley Amis said that The Country Girls deserved his "personal first-novel prize...
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  • Keneally Hilary Mantel Ali Smith Colm Toibin Barry Unsworth 3 nominations Kingsley Amis John Banville Nicola Barker Andre Brink Michael Frayn Damon Galgut Nadine...
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  • – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century"...
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