| Kingsley Amis  Born: 16-Apr-1922
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 22-Oct-1995
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Accident - Fall
Remains: Buried, Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Lucky Jim Military service: Royal Corps of Signals (1940's) Wife: Hilary Ann Bardwell (m. Jan-1948)
Wife: Elizabeth Jane Howard (novelist, m. 1965, div. 1983)
Son: Martin Amis (novelist, b. 25-Aug-1949)
High School: City of London School
University: St. John's College, Oxford University
Teacher: Lecturer, University of Wales Swansea (1948-61)
Teacher: Lecturer, Cambridge University (1961-63)
Communist Party
Garrick Club
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1986 for The Old Devils
Officer of the British Empire 1981
Knight of the British Empire 1990
Risk Factors: Alcoholism
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Tell Me Lies (Feb-1968)
Author of books:
Bright November (1947, poetry)
A Frame of Mind (1953, poetry)
Poems: Fantasy Portraits (1954, poetry)
Lucky Jim (1954, novel)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955, novel)
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 (1956, poetry)
I Like It Here (1958, novel)
One Fat Englishman (1963, novel)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)
Colonel Sun (1968, novel, James Bond)
The Green Man (1969, novel)
Rudyard Kipling and His World (1965, biography)
Jake's Thing (1978, novel)
Russian Hide and Seek (1980, novel)
The Old Devils (1986, novel)
Memoirs (1991, memoir)
You Can't Do Both (1994, novel)
The King's English (1998)
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