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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism , the working men's college , and forming labour cooperatives , which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism .
Amis was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. [8] His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.
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Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish Colonel Sun in March 1968. The book was the first continuation James Bond novel following the death of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming .
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), Lucky Jim; Martin Amis (1949–2023), Dead Babies; Valerie Anand (1937–2007), historical fiction; Julie Andrews (born 1935) Sam Angus (born 1967), children's historical novels; Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), didactic novelist; Evelyn Anthony (1926–2018) Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946) Jeffrey Archer (born 1940 ...
The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007 is a book by Kingsley Amis which was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner . In Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels, Bill Tanner is M's chief of staff and a recurring character throughout the series.