Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), Novelist
Sir Kingsley William Amis
Sitter associated with 30 portraits
Born in South London, from 1949 Amis was a lecturer at Swansea University. His first novel Lucky Jim (1954) was an immediate success. Its hero Jim Dixon, a lecturer in a regional university with an anti-establishment, anti-pretension, anti-arts-and-crafts attitude, won Amis a place among the 'angry young men' of his generation, alongside the playwright John Osborne and the poet Philip Larkin. Other novels followed: Take a Girl Like You (1960), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. He admired the work of Ian Fleming, but while his own work was influential in the development of fiction, he took an increasingly conservative and hostile view of contemporary life.
by Gordon Stuart
oil on canvasboard, 1953
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1957
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by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from an original negative, 2009 (1975)
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by Daniel Farson
modern bromide print, 18 June 1956
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by Daniel Farson
modern bromide print, 18 June 1956
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by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, June 1957
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1950s
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Kingsley Amis; Elizabeth Jane Howard
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1966
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Elizabeth Jane Howard; Kingsley Amis
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1966
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Elizabeth Jane Howard; Kingsley Amis
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1966
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Kingsley Amis; Elizabeth Jane Howard
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1966
NPG x131055
by Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1967
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by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 8 October 1969
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by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 3 March 1970
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by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 3 March 1970
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Literature, Journalism and Publishing
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Angry young men
Novelists and authors
Place
Swansea
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