Born: 16-Apr-1922
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 22-Oct-1995
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Accident - Fall

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Lucky Jim

Military service: Royal Corps of Signals (1940's)

Wife: Hilary Ann Bardwell (m. Jan-1948)
Wife: Elizabeth Jane Howard (novelist, m. 1965, div. 1983)
Son: Martin Amis (novelist, b. 25-Aug-1949)

    High School: City of London School
    University: St. John's College, Oxford
    Teacher: Lecturer, University of Wales Swansea (1948-61)
    Teacher: Lecturer, Cambridge University (1961-63)

    Communist Party
    Garrick Club
    Booker Prize 1986 for The Old Devils
    Officer of the British Empire 1981
    Knight of the British Empire 1990
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism

Author of books:
Bright November (1947, poetry)
A Frame of Mind (1953, poetry)
Poems: Fantasy Portraits (1954, poetry)
Lucky Jim (1954, novel)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955, novel)
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 (1956, poetry)
I Like It Here (1958, novel)
One Fat Englishman (1963, novel)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)
Colonel Sun (1968, novel, James Bond)
The Green Man (1969, novel)
Rudyard Kipling and His World (1965, biography)
Jake's Thing (1978, novel)
Russian Hide and Seek (1980, novel)
The Old Devils (1986, novel)
Memoirs (1991, memoir)
You Can't Do Both (1994, novel)
The King's English (1998)

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