Maurice Allington while scanning the books of his personal library in the study of his rustic country inn, The Green Man.Īnd what manner of narrator did Kingsley Amis create to tell his novel’s story? “I have no novelists, finding theirs a puny and piffling art, one that, even at its best, can render truthfully no more than a few minor parts of the total world it pretends to take as its field of reference.” So declares Mr. Pen names: Robert Markham & William Tanner Although he worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, he had by then decided to devote much of his time to writing. 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. After only a year, he was called up for Army service in July 1942. John's College, Oxford April 1941 to read English it was there that he met Philip Larkin, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. He began his education at the City of London School, and went up to St. Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, Wandsworth, County of London (now South London), England, the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturer's clerk. He fathered the English novelist Martin Amis. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE, was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
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