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Kingsley Amis was a British author. His works include Bright November, A Frame of Mind, Poems: Fantasy Portraits, Lucky Jim, That Uncertain Feeling, A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956, Socialism and the Intellectuals. A Fabian Society pamphlet, I Like it Here, Take a Girl Like You, New Maps of Hell: a Survey of Science Fiction, Hemingway in Space, Punch, My Enemy\'s Enemy, The Evans County, One Fat Englishman, The Egyptologists, The James Bond Dossier, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007, The Anti-Death League, Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure, I Want It Now, A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967, The Green Man, What Became of Jane Austen?, and Other Questions, Girl, 20, On Drink, and The Riverside Villas Murder. His other writings include Ending Up, Rudyard Kipling and his World, The Crime of the Century, The Alteration, Jake\'s Thing, The New Oxford Book of Light Verse, Collected Poems 1944–78, Russian Hide-and-Seek, Collected Short Stories, Everyday Drinking, How\'s Your Glass?, Stanley and the Women, The Old Devils, Difficulties With Girls, The Folks That Live on the Hill, The Amis Collection, Memoirs, Mr. Barrett\'s Secret and Other Stories, We Are All Guilty, The Russian Girl, You Can\'t Do Both, The Biographer\'s Moustache, The King\'s English: A Guide to Modern Usage, The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and Everyday Drinking.

Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham in South London. He attended City of London School and St. John\'s College, Oxford where he read English and met Philip Larkin. It was at this time that he was part of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He served in the Royal Corps of Signals during the Second World War. He returned to Oxford to complete his studies. He taught English at the University of Swansea. His first novel titled Lucky Jim was widely acclaimed. It was translated into twenty languages including Czech, Hebrew, Korean, and Serbo-Croat. He was known for his comic writing although his writing spilled across others genres such as poetry, essays and criticism, short stories, food and drink writing, anthologies, science fiction, and mystery. He was married to Elizabeth Jane Howard and his son is Martin Amis.