Biografía

16 de abril de 1922 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

22 de octubre de 1995 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (complicaciones tras una caída)

Kingley Amis

1.80 m

Father of writer Martin Amis.

British novelist and poet, who graduated with an MA from Oxford. He lectured in English at Swansea (1949-61). Amis was regarded as the quintessential 'angry young man' for his fashionable 1954 novel "Lucky Jim". He later dabbled in science fiction and was noted for his imaginative 1966 work "The Anti-Death League".

Politically a Tory who stood in opposition to the intellectual Left, he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 and was knighted in 1990.

Buried at Golders Green Crematorium (London/UK).

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

One of the great benefits of organized religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.