Kingsley Amis & Martin Amis

In honor of Father’s Day, St. Charles Library’s Readers Services is celebrating the works of two famous literary fathers and sons: Andre Dubus and his son Andre Dubus III and Kingsley Amis and his son Martin.

Kingsley Amis

Novelist, poet, critic and teacher, Kingsley Amis was born in London in 1922, and educated at the City of London School and St. John’s College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor and Master’s Degrees. A radical in his youth, Amis joined the Communist Party and led the Labour Club choir. Known for his conservative critique of contemporary life, he earned many prestigious literary awards, namely, the Somerset Maugham Award, Great Britain’s Book Trust and the Booker-McConnell Prize. Amis’s career included that of lecturer at the University College of Swansea, Wales, a fellow of Cambridge, visiting fellow at Princeton and visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He joined the British Army, Royal Signal Corps from 1942-1945, and was later knighted in 1990. Mr. Amis died after suffering injuries from a fall in 1995.

Works:

The Crime of the Century FIC AMIS
Difficulties with Girls FIC AMIS
The Folks That Live on the Hill FIC AMIS (LP Only)
The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage 423.1 AMIS , *
Lucky Jim FIC AMIS
The Old Devils FIC AMIS
The Russian Girl FIC AMIS
Stanley and the Women FIC AMIS
What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions 824.914 AMI

Martin Amis

Born in Oxford, England in 1949, Martin spent his childhood in Britain, Spain and the United States before graduating with honors from Exeter College, England. He has been an editorial assistant for the Times Literary Supplement, literary assistant for New Statesman and special writer for the Observer and the New York Times. Martin Amis has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, the National Book League, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is considered one of the most influential and creative voices among contemporary British authors. Mr. Amis has four children and currently lives in New York.

Works:

Einstein’s Monsters FIC AMIS
Experience 823.914 AMI
Heavy Water and Other Stories FIC AMIS
Koba the Dread; The Laughter and the Twenty Million 947.0842092 AMI
The Information FIC AMIS
London Fields FIC AMIS
Night Train FIC AMIS
Time’s Arrow: Or, the Nature of the Offense FIC AMIS
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions 824.914 AMI
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 828.914 AMI
Yellow Dog FIC AMIS

*Available in audio format
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