Amis, Sir Kingsley
Amis, Sir Kingsley (1922-95), British novelist and writer. His first novel, the irreverent Lucky Jim (1954), was an immediate success. Subsequent novels include Take a Girl Like You (1960), the supernatural tale The Green Man (1969), The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer’s Moustache (1995). He also published poetry and a volume of Memoirs (1991). His second wife was the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. His son Martin Amis (1949- ) is also a novelist, who established his reputation with The Rachel Papers (1974) and other black comedies. In the 1980s and 1990s such works as Money (1983), London Fields (1989), and The Information (1995) made Amis one of the most widely praised British writers of his generation.
