Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer,Zachary Leader, Amis was the finest Englishcomic novelistof the second half of the twentieth century. He is the father of British novelistMartin Amis.
