Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the sucess of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award; The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize; and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990.
Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical
*Guardian*
Accomplished, literate and entertaining
*New Statesman*
'Bare-knuckled, witty, light but never 'lite', outward-looking
instead of inward-gazing - a kind of red-blooded vers de
société'
*The New Criterion*
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