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Sir Kingsley William Amis, f�dd 16 april 1922 i London, dog 22 oktober 1995 i Oxford, Oxfordshire. var en brittisk, f�rfattare, poet och litteraturkritiker som skrev �ver 20 romaner, tre diktsamlingar och ett antal novellsamlingar, manus f�r radio och TV. Han �r far till f�rfattaren Martin Amis. Biografi: Kingsley Amis f�ddes i London, gick i skola i City of London School och St. John's College  Oxford, d�r han m�tte Philip Larkin, som blev hans n�rmaste v�n. Efter att ha tj�nat som signalist i brittiska flottan under andra v�rldskriget, tog Amis examen fr�n universitetet 1947. Han b�rjade f�rel�sa i engelska vid universiteten i Wales Swansea och Cambridge Amis f�rsta roman, Lucky Jim, blev mycket popul�r och anses av m�nga vara ett bra exempel p� 1950-talets Storbritannien. Den vann Somerset Maugham-priset f�r sk�nlitteratur, och �r den f�rsta brittiska romanen med en vanlig man som antihj�lte. Amis kom att associeras med f�rfattarna som kallades angry young men, medan han som poet tillh�rde movement-gruppen. Som ung var Kingsley Amis en h�gr�stad medlem av det brittiska kommunistiska partiet. Han blev dock desillusionerad och br�t med partiet n�r Sovjetunionen invaderade Ungern 1956. D�refter blev Amis   antikommunist och konservativ. Amis var ateist. Hans romaner The Green Man och The Anti-Death League handlade delvis om hur en gudoms personlighet skulle se ut, och dess relation till d�den. Amis roman om en grupp pensionerade v�nner, The Old Devils vann the Booker Prize 1986 . Han blev adlad 1990. Kingsley Amis var gift tv� g�nger, f�rst 1948 med Hilary Bardwell, sedan med romanf�rfattaren, Elizabeth Jane Howard, �r 1965; de skilde sig 1983. Under sina sista �r delade Amis hus med sin f�rsta fru och hennes tredje make. Han hade tre barn, inklusive f�rfattaren Martin Amis, som skrev om sin fars liv och sista tid i sina memoarer Experience. James Bond Kingsley Amis sammankopplades med Ian Flemings fiktive hemlige agent, James Bond, under 1960-talet, n�r han skrev flera granskande verk om figuren, antingen under peseudonym eller utan att namnges. Han skrev den popul�ra Fallet James Bond under sitt eget namn, men �ven The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007 under pseudonymen Bill Tanner, som �r M:s stabschef i Flemings romaner om James Bond. Det p�st�s ofta att Amis, efter Flemings d�d 1964, hyrdes in f�r att putsa p� Flemings f�rsta utkast till romanen Mannen med den gyllene pistolen. Bond-historiker och Fleming-forskare har konstaterat att inga s�dana sk�kskrivare anv�ndes, �ven om Amis erbj�d f�rslag p� f�rb�ttringar som dock aldrig inkorporerdes. 1968 f�rs�kte �garna till den litter�ra Bond, Glidrose publications att forts�tta serien romaner om James Bond, genom att l�ta ett antal olika f�rfattare skriva om Bond under samma pseudonym. Amis blev den f�rste att skriva en roman under namnet Robert Markham, �verste Sun, och d�refter gavs experimentet upp. Amis l�r, enligt rykten, ha varit p� v�g att skriva en andra Bondbok, men �vertalades att l�ta bli. 1968 �verste Sun, en James Bond roman, under pseudonymen "Robert Markham."

Sir Kingsley William Amis,  CBE (16 April 1922 � 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was 'the finest British comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. He is the father of the English novelist Martin Colonel Sun (1968), by Robert Markham, is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's death in 1964; Glidrose Productions used the collective pseudonym "Robert Markham", for British novelist Kingsley Amis, with the intent of so publishing other novels by different writers. Previously,  Amis had written the literary study The James Bond Dossier, and the humorous The Book of Bond (under the William Tanner pseudonym), and waand was rumoured the editor and ghost writer of The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming's final novel.  Discounting Christopher Wood's two screenplay novelisations, and the novel James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 (1973), by John Pearson, Colonel Sun was the last, new novel in the Fleming canon's original Cold War time (the 1950s and the 1960s), until Licence Renewed (1981), by John Gardner, who, like Raymond Benson, updated the character to the 1980s and to the post�Cold War 21st century respectively, until publication of Devil May Care (2008). 1965- He wrote the James Bond Dossier under his name.               "The book of James Bond" The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007 is a book by Kingsley Amis which was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner. In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Bill Tanner is M's chief of staff and a recurring character throughout the series. A tongue-in-cheek work, published by the same company that issued the Bond novels,  The Book of Bond is a manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, illustrated with examples taken from the Fleming canon. The first edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title The Bible to be Read as Literature. In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title. Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote The James Bond Dossier, a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert

Glass in hand: Kingsley Amis's  drinking helped destroy his marriage.

Sir Kingsley Amis in 1987. Amis was awarded a knighthood in 1990 and died in 1995.

Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)