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Author Description Best known novels of British writer Sir <b>Kingsley William Amis</b> include <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim" title="Lucky Jim" rel="nofollow noopener">Lucky Jim</a> </i> (1954) and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366427.The_Old_Devils" title="The Old Devils" rel="nofollow noopener">The Old Devils</a> </i> (1986). <br /><br />This English poet, critic, and teacher composed more than twenty-three collections, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11337.Martin_Amis" title="Martin Amis" rel="nofollow noopener">Martin Amis</a>. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=William%20Robert%20Amis" title="William Robert Amis" rel="nofollow noopener">William Robert Amis</a>, a clerk of a mustard manufacturer, fathered him. He began his education at the city of London school, and went up to college of Saint John, Oxford, in April 1941 to read English; he met <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64716.Philip_Larkin" title="Philip Larkin" rel="nofollow noopener">Philip Larkin</a> and formed the most important friendship of his life. After only a year, the Army called him for service in July 1942. After serving as a lieutenant in the royal corps of signals in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. He worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, and then decided to devote much of his time. <br /><br />Pen names: [authorRobert Markham|553548] and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4300334.William_Bill_Tanner" title="William Bill Tanner" rel="nofollow noopener">William Bill Tanner</a>

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