Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of English novelist Martin Amis.

Partial Bibliography

:1947 Amis's first collection of poems, Bright November

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:1953 A Frame of Mind

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:1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits.

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:1954 Lucky Jim, Amis' first novel

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1954 - Lucky Jim

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:1955 That Uncertain Feeling

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:1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956.

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:1958 I Like it Here

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:1960 Take a Girl Like You

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:1960 New Maps of Hell

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:1960 Hemingway in Space (short story), Punch Dec 1960

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1960 - Hemingway - Punch

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:1962 My Enemy's Enemy

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:1962 The Evans County

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:1963 One Fat Englishman

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:1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest).

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1965 - Robert Conquest

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:1965 The James Bond Dossier

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1965 - The James Bond Dossier

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:1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007, under the pseudonym "Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner"

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:1966 The Anti-Death League

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:1968 Colonel Sun, a James Bond novel, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham."

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1968 - Colonel Sun - James Bond

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:1968 I Want It Now

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:1969 The Green Man

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:1970 What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions

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:1971 Girl, 20

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:1972 On Drink

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:1973 The Riverside Villas Murders

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:1974 Ending Up

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:1974 Rudyard Kipling and his World

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:1976 The Alteration

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:1978 Jake's Thing

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:1979 Collected Poems 1944-78

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:1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek

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:1980 Collected Short Stories

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:1983 Every Day Drinking

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:1984 How's Your Glass?

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:1984 Stanley and the Women

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:1986 The Old Devils

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:1988 Difficulties With Girls

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:1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill

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:1990 The Amis Collection

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:1991 Memoirs

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:1991 Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories

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:1992 The Russian Girl

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:1994 The semi-autobiographical You Can't Do Both was published.

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:1995 The Biographer's Moustache

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:1998 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

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