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Kingsley Amis NPG x30331

© Trevor Leighton / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Trevor Leighton

Born in London and educated at Oxford, Amis combined writing with lecturing English at Swansea (1949-61), Cambridge (1961-3) and later in the USA. His first novel Lucky Jim (1954), a satire on academic, middle-class life, was an immediate success and linked him to other so-called Angry Young Men. Later novels include Take a Girl Like You (1960), Jake’s Thing (1978) and the Booker prize-winning The Old Devils (1986). Despite the contemporary nature of his work, Amis took an increasingly conservative and acerbic view of… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.