Kingsley Amis

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Sir Kingsley William Amis, 16 April 1922 – October 22, 1995), an English novelist, writer, critic, and educator.

He wrote more than 20 books, six volumes of poetry, a book, several short stories, radio and television scripts, as well as works of sociological and literary criticism.

Amis was "the best English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century," according to his biographer, Zachary Leader. Martin Amis, a British novelist, is the father of the writer.

The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Personal life

Amis, a young man at Oxford, joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and resigned in 1956. Later in life, he referred to this period of his political life as "the callow Marxist phase that appeared almost compulsory in Oxford." Amis remained a bit on the Left after the war, promising in the 1950s that he would always vote for the Labour Party.

Amis eventually veered right, a step that he discussed in the essay "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right" (1967); his conservatism and anti-communism can be seen in works like the dystopian book Russian Hide and Seek (1980). Amis, Robert Conquest, John Braine, and many other writers wrote a letter to The Times in 1967, "Backing for United States Policies in Vietnam," a letter sent by the US government in the Vietnam War. He spoke at the Adam Smith Institute, protesting government support for the arts.

Amis was a serial adulter for a considerable portion of his life by his own admission and according to his biographers. This was a significant contributing factor in his first marriage's breakdown. The slogan (written in lipstick by wife Hilary) on his back depicts a sleeping Amis on a Yugoslav beach. "1 Fat Englishman – I fuck it" says the artist.

"I become aware of being one of the greatest drinkers, if not one of the greatest drunks of our time," Amis wrote in a memoir. He claims that this reflects a reader's tendency to apply the behavior of his characters to himself. In fact, he loved alcohol and spent a considerable amount of time in bars. "I doubted Jim Dixon would have walked to the bar and drunk ten pints of beer," Hilary Rubinstein, who accepted Lucky Jim for Victor Gollancz, wrote. You see, I didn't know Kingsley well." "He had the weekly beverages bill of a whole table at the Garrick Club even before he was elected," Clive James said. After being hungry, he'd be so stuffed there that he'd barely make it to the taxi." Amis, on the other hand, was adamant in his assertion that inspiration did not come from a bottle: "Whatever part of the writer's life may play a role in his or her work." This is in keeping with a disciplined approach to writing. Amis maintained a rigorous daily schedule for himself, segregating writing and alcohol for "many years." With a minimum daily word count of 500 words, mornings were spent on writing. This was about lunchtime, when this had been achieved. Amis's prodigious output was due to such self-discipline.

However, Amis' drinking ceased to be social and became a way of dulling his remorse and regret about his behavior toward Hilly, according to James. "Amis had turned against himself deliberately," Amis says. It's reasonable to say that the troubled grandee came to condemn his own conduct." "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his humor and charm, as well as his health," Christopher Hitchens said.

Amis had a tumultuous relationship with antisemitism, which he occasionally expressed but also opposed. He occasionally speculated on the commonly held Jewish stereotypes. Antisemitism was often present in his letters and letters to colleagues and acquaintances, including "The greatest Jewish vice is glibness, fluency," or "Chaplin [who was not Jewish] is a horse's arse. You see, he's like the Marx Brothers, like Danny Kaye." In his Stanley and the Women book about a nefarious schizophrenic, it is a minor theme. Amis continued to say: "I've now figured out why I don't like Americans." Because everyone there is either a Jew or a hick," he says. Amis' antisemitism was described as "very mild" by him.

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Life and career

Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, south London, and the only son of William Robert Amis (1889-1933), a clerk for the mustard manufacturer Colman's in the City of London, and his wife Rosa Annie (née Lucas). The Amis grandparents were wealthy. William Amis' father, the glass merchant Joseph Amis, owned a mansion called Barchester at Purley, which was then part of Surrey. Amis ruled out J. J. Amis, also known as "Pater" or "Dadda," who was "a jokey, excitable, silly little guy" who was "disgusting and was refused by" before being rejected by." Julia "was a large, dreadful, hairy creature [Amis] loathed and feared." His mother's parents (her father, a keen bibliophil for books who worked at a gentleman's outfitters) lived at Camberwell. Amis hoped to inherit a portion of his grandfather's library, but only was allowed to read five volumes by his grandmother, who wrote "from his grandfather's collection" on each flyleaf.

Amis was raised in Norbury, but "not really a place, it's an expression on a map [–] In the future, I should say I came from Norbury station." The Amises immigrated from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in 1940. He was educated at the City of London School (as his father had been) on a scholarship after his first year, and in April 1941 he was admitted to St John's College, Oxford, also on a scholarship, where he read English. Philip Larkin, with whom he had the most lasting friendship of his life, was he met him there. Amis joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in June 1941, but he broke with communism in 1956, after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced Joseph Stalin in his address Cult of Personality and Consequences. He was called up for national service and served in the Royal Corps of Signals in July 1942. He returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and gained his first in England in 1947, he had decided to dedicate a large portion of his time to writing by then.

Hilary Bardwell was a boy who lived in 1946. They married in 1948 after she became pregnant with their first child, Philip. Amis had intended for her to have a back-street abortion but decided against it due to her health. He was a lecturer in English at the University College of Swansea from 1949 to 1961. Martin in August 1949 and Sally in January 1954 were followed by two other children.

Amis' first book, Lucky Jim, was released to acclaim days after Sally's birth. Critics argued that it had captured the British culture of the 1950s and introduced a new breed of fiction. The company's record-breaking earnings in Britain were outmatched by 1.25 million paperback copies sold in the United States by 1972. It was translated into 20 languages, including Polish, Hebrew, Korean, and Serbo-Croat. The book received the Somerset Maugham Award for imagination, and Amis became one of the Angry Young Men, according to the author. Lucky Jim was one of the first British university books, setting the tone for writers of later generations such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe, and Howard Jacobson. Amis, a poet, was also associated with The Movement.

Amis made the first of two visits to the United States in 1958-1959 as a visiting fellow in creative writing at Princeton University and a visiting lecturer in other north-eastern universities. On his return to the United Kingdom, he fell into a rut and started looking for another job. Amis, who was a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1961, regretted the transfer within a year, finding Cambridge a cultural and social dissatisfaction. He resigned in 1963, with the intention of transferring to Majorca, although he later moved no further than London.

Hilary Hilary discovered in 1963 that Amis was having an affair with writer Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hilary and Amis were divorced in August and Howard went to live with Howard, divorcing Hilary and marrying Howard in 1965. Howard and Howard transferred to Lemmons, a house in Barnet, north London, in 1968. In 1983, she and Amis divorced.

Amis lived in Kilmarnock for the 7th time during his lifetime. Martin's memoir reveals a lot about his father's life, charm, and death.

In 1990, Amis was knighted. He died in August 1995 after suffering a suspected stroke. He appeared to be recovering after apparently recovering and died on October 22 at St Pancras Hospital, London. He was cremated and his ashes were laid to rest at Golders Green Crematorium.

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