Male : Novelist. Married Elizabeth Jane Howard 1965 (divorced 1983)

Nationality : English Place of Birth : South London

Date of Birth : 1922 Date of Death : 1995 Age : 73

Pseudonyms : Robert Markham

Other Work : Lectured in English at University College, Swansea, and then at Cambridge from 1961

Education : City of London School & St John's College, Oxford

1947-1955
Bright November (1947 Fortune Press)
A Frame of Mind (1953 Reading School of Arts)
Lucky Jim (1953 Gollancz) (1954 Doubleday)
[A signed copy of the UK first sold for £2760 at auction in 1999]
[Filmed in 1957]
Fantasy Poets No 22 (1954 Fantasy Press)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955 Gollancz 12/6) (1956 Harcourt Brace)
[Filmed in 1962 as "Only Two Can Play"]

1956-1966
A Case of Samples : Poems 1946-1955 (1956 Gollancz 15/-) (1957 HB)
Socialism and the Intellectuals (1957 Fabian Tract No 304) - 16pp
I Like it Here (1958 Gollancz) (1958 HB)
Take a Girl Like You (1960 Gollancz) (1961 HB)
[Filmed in 1970]
New Maps of Hell : A Survey of Science Fiction (1960 HB) (1961 Gollancz)
The Evans Country (1962 Fantasy Press)
My Enemy's Enemy (1962 Gollancz) (1963 HB) - ss
One Fat Englishman (1963 Gollancz) (1964 HB)
The Egyptologists (1965 Cape) (1966 Random House) - with Robert Conquest
The James Bond Dossier (1965 Cape) (1965 NAL)
The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965 Cape) - [As Lt-Col William (Bill) Tanner]
The Anti-Death League (1966 Gollancz 30/-) (1966 HB)

1967-1975
A Look Around the Estate : Poems 1957-1967 (1967 Cape)
Colonel Sun : A James Bond Adventure (1968 Cape) (1968 Harper) - written as Robert Markham
I Want it Now (1968 Cape) (1969 HB)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1068 Conservative Centre)
The Green Man (1969 Cape) (1970 HB)
What Became of Jane Austen ? and other Questions (1970 Cape) (1971 HB) - essays
Girl 20 (1971 Cape) (1972 HB)
Dear Illusion (1972 Covent Garden Press) - 600 copies. - ss
On Drink (1972 Cape) (1973 HB) - Nicolas Bentley
(Ed) G K Chesterton : Selected Stories (1972 Faber)
(Ed) Tennyson (1973 Penguin)
The Riverside Villa Murders (1973 Cape) (1973 HB)
Ending Up (1974 Cape) (1974 HB)
(Ed) G K Chesterton : A Century Appraisal (1974 Elek)
Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975 Thames & Hudson) (1975 Scribner)

1976-1980
The Alteration (1976 Cape) (1977 Viking)
(Ed) Harold's Years (1977 Quartet)
Jake's Thing (1978 Hutchinson) (1979 Viking)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978 Tragara Press) - Sherlock Holmes spoof Ltd to 165 copies. - ss
(Ed) The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (1978 OUP)
(Ed) The Faber Popular Reciter (1978 Faber)
Collected Poems 1944-1979 (1979 Hutchinson) (1980 Viking)
An Arts Policy ? (1979 Centre for Policy Studies) - lecture
Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980 Hutchinson)
Collected Short Stories (1980 Hutchinson)

1981-1990
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981 Hutchinson)
Every Day Drinking (1983 Hutchinson)
How's Your Glass ? A Quizzical look at Drinks and Drinking (1984 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Stanley and the Women (1984 Hutchinson £8.95) (1985 Summit)
(Ed) The Great British Songbook (1986 Pavilion) - with John Cochrane
The Old Devils (1986 Hutchinson) (1986 Summit) - BOOKER PRIZE
[Up to 1995 this had sold an estimated 80,000 copies in hardback]
The Crime of the Century (1987 Dent) (1989 Mysterious Press)
Difficulties with Girls (1988 Hutchinson) (1989 Summit)
The Amis Anthology : A Personal Choice of English Verse (1988 Hutchinson)
The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990 Hutchinson) (1990 Summit)
(Ed) The Pleasure of Poetry (1990 Cassell)
The Amis Collection : Selected Non-Fiction 1954-1990 (1990 Hutchinson £16.99)

AFTER 1991
Memoirs (1991 Hutchinson £16.99) (1991 Summit)
The Kingsley Amis Omnibus (1992 Hutchinson)
The Russian Girl (1992 Hutchinson £14.99)
(Ed) The Amis Story Anthology : stories by other hands (1992 Hutchinson)
Mr Barrett's Secret & Other Stories (1993 Hutchinson £14.99)
You Can't Do Both (1994 Hutchinson £15.99)
The Biographer's Moustache (1995 Flamingo £9.99)
The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage (1997 Harper Collins)

READING
Jack Benoit Gohn : Kingsley Amis - A Checklist (1976 Kent UP)
Eric Jacobs : Kingsley Amis - A Biography (1995 H & S £17.99) (1998 St Martin's Press NY $26.95)
Richard Bradford : Lucky Him - The Life of Kingsley Amis (2001 Peter Owen £22.50)