WRITER

Kingsley Amis

1922 - 1995

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Sir Kingsley William Amis (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kingsley Amis has received more than 1,354,952 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Kingsley Amis is the 2,331st most popular writer (down from 2,059th in 2019), the 1,728th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,621st in 2019) and the 185th most popular British Writer.

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  • 55.08

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lucky Jim
College Lecturers, University Life in Fiction, Fiction
Amis’s debut novel, published in 1954, is a satire on academia. The protagonist is a bored and disinterested history lecturer at a provincial university, trapped in a joyless and sexless relationship with a depressive fellow lecturer. The book immediately elevated Amis to fame as one of the leading writers of his generation.
1953
Take a Girl Like You
1960
I Like it Here
Fiction in English
1958
Girl, 20
Fiction, Middle-aged men, Young women
1971
One fat Englishman
1963

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kingsley Amis ranks 2,331 out of 7,302. Before him are Armin T. Wegner, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Marie Under, Ahron Daum, Richard Aldington, and Albert Cossery. After him are Mary Baker Eddy, Elizabeth von Arnim, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Frederic W. H. Myers, Andrei Voznesensky, and Tullia d'Aragona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kingsley Amis ranks 161. Before him are Artemio Franchi, Bea Arthur, Niels Holst-Sørensen, Howard Zinn, Vasko Popa, and Shovkat Alakbarova. After him are Mauro Bolognini, Theo Albrecht, Charles M. Schulz, Stephen Toulmin, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, and Esther Lederberg. Among people deceased in 1995, Kingsley Amis ranks 103. Before him are Srinagarindra, Georgy Beregovoy, Viveca Lindfors, Selena, Mordechai Gur, and Theodor Wisch. After him are Bobby Riggs, Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, Masashi Watanabe, Fred West, and J. Presper Eckert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kingsley Amis ranks 1,728 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Williamson (1940), Ian Callaghan (1942), Anthony Blunt (1907), Gary Glitter (1944), Richard Aldington (1892), and Roger Cotes (1682). After him are Dido (1971), Patrick Head (1946), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Edward Low (1690), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), and William Cullen (1710).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Kingsley Amis ranks 185. Before him are Eric Knight (1897), Christina Rossetti (1830), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Donald Adamson (1939), and Richard Aldington (1892). After him are Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Terry Eagleton (1943), Philip Sidney (1554), Walter Bagehot (1826), William Auld (1924), and Leonard Woolf (1880).

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