Biography kingsley amis johnson

He wrote more than twenty novels , three collections of poetry , short stories, radio and television scripts , and books of social and literary criticism. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. He went to school at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. At Oxford, he met Philip Larkin and became friends.

Amis was a fan of jazz music. His first novel Lucky Jim was very successfull. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Lucky Jim was the first English novel that focused on an ordinary man as anti-hero. As a young man, Kingsley Amis was a member of the Communist Party. He left them when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in After that, Amis became anti-communist, and conservative.

Amis was an atheist.

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They were also about its relationship to death and dying. He received a knighthood in Amis was married. He divorced Howard in