Kingsley Amis

April 16, 1922 to October 22, 1995

Born in London, England & Died in London, England

Author of Lucky Jim, multiple Booker Prize nominee, and Booker Prize winner in 1986. He is also the father of Martin Amis who has written a few books himself.

Quote

"Any proper writer ought to be able to write about anything."

Off-Site Resource

Good Essay on Kingsley Amis and His Work

Bibliography

Fiction

Lucky Jim - 1954

That Uncertain Feeling - 1955

I Like it Here - 1958

Take a Girl Like You - 1960

My Enemy's Enemy - 1962

One Fat Englishman - 1963

The Egyptologists - 1965 (with Robert Conquest)

The Anti-Death League - 1966

Colonel Sun - 1968 (James Bond novel written under the pseudonym Robert Markham)

I Want it Now - 1968

The Green Man - 1969

Girl 20 - 1971

The Riverside Villas Murders - 1973

Ending Up - 1974

The Alteration - 1976

Jake's Thing - 1978

Russian Hide-and-Seek - 1980

Collected Short Stories - 1980

Stanley & the Women - 1984

The Old Devils - 1986

Difficulties With Girls - 1988

The Folks That Live on the Hill - 1990

The Russian Girl - 1992

The Biographer's Mustache - 1995

Poetry: (selections)

A Case of Samples: Poems 1946 to 1956 - 1956

Collected Poems: 1944 to 1979- 1979

Nonfiction:

New Maps of Hell - 1960

The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 - 1968 (written under pseudonym Lt. Colonel William (Bill) Tanner)

The James Bond Dossier - 1968

What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions - 1970

On Drink - 1972

Rudyard Kipling and His World - 1975

How's Your Glass: A Quizzical Look at Drinks and Drinking - 1984

Memoirs - 1991

You Can't Do Both - 1994 (also listed as fiction)

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

Letters - 2000

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