Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet, is born
Historical person
Kingsley Amiss Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Kingsley Amiss, based on 16 World History Database records associated with Great Britain.
Chronological biography
1922
1954
Publication of "Lucky Jim", a brilliant comic satire on academic life
Publication of "Lucky Jim", a brilliant comic satire on academic life
1955
Publication of "That Certain Feeling"
1957
Publication of "Socialism and the Intellectuals"
1960
Publication of "Take A Girl Like You"
1969
Publication of "The Green Man"
1970
Publication of "What Became of Jane Austen?"
1973
Publication of "The Riverside Villas Murder"
1974
Publication of "Ending Up"
1985
Publication of "Stanley & The Women"
1986
Winner of the Booker Prize
Publication of "The Old Devils"
1990
Amiss is knighted
1994
Publication of "The Russian Girl"
1995
Death of Kingsley Amiss
Record provenance
This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.