![]() ![]() ![]() He received a knighthood in 1990.Īmis was twice married, first in 1948 to Hilary Bardwell, then to novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, in 1965 they divorced in 1983. He discusses his political change of heart in the essay "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right" (1967), and it percolates into later works such as his 1980 dystopian novel Russian Hide and Seek.Īmis's novel about a group of retired friends, The Old Devils, won the Booker Prize in 1986. Thereafter, Amis was stridently anti-communist, even reactionary. He broke away from Communism when the USSR invaded Hungary in 1956. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim.Īs a young man, Kingsley Amis was a vocal Communist and a member of the Communist Party. ![]() Kingsley Amis was born in London, educated at the City of London School and St. He authored the James Bond novel Colonel Sun in 1968. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. ![]() He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. Sir Kingsley William Amis (Ap– October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ![]()
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