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Information About the Life and Work of Kingsley Amis
British Author, Novelist, Poet, 1922 - 1995.
He became a lecturer in English and during his career lectured at universities in Swansea and Cambridge.
During the 1940s and 1950s he was associated with writers and poets in a movement known as The Angry Young Men.
He had various works of poetry published but it was his first novel
He had a natural talent for comic and mildly satiric writing,
which clearly stands out in many of his novels.
His many works include
Colonel Sun (1968) a James bond thriller published under the Pseudonym of
Amis admired the work of Ian Fleming, whose work he went on to praise highly in the
The Riverside Villas Murder, published in 1973,
His non-fiction works cover a wide variety of subjects including wine, science fiction,
a study of Rudyard Kipling, a biography published in 1986, he also edited numerous poetry anthologies.
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