Kingsley Amis

Amis later identified Jennings as the star of the show, our discovery.

At the Whitbread ceremony Kingsley Amis said, I only wish adult fiction was written half as well. This book also won a Dutch award, the Silver Pen for the Children's Book of the Year...

This novel too was praised by Ivy Compton-Burnett .Kingsley Amis , in a retrospective essay on ET 's career, noticed her ability to combine an often withering disgust for hypocrisy and self-delusion with...

FH remained continuously in print throughout the Victorian period, but her critical reputation and popularity waned before its close and died with modernism. She lingered on in popular memory as the author of popular recitation...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

Kingsley Amis welcomed this book in a style of irony to match its own: a warning to any readers who happened to dislike the prospect of loneliness, old age, and approaching death that the novel...

This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ later associated with Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its...

At OxfordPL embarked, with Kingsley Amis , on a series of wild parodies and travesties, most notably Larkin's Willow Gables series of spoof school stories for girls. He also provided ideas, suggestions, a plot...

EJH finished this novel during the beginning of her life with Kingsley Amis , at Sitges in Spain, in a hotel in Pollenza on Mallorca, and finally in their top-floor flat in London...

Kingsley Amis biographer Zachary Leader claims that while Howard lived with Amis at Lemmons and later in Hampstead, her writing was limited to journalism, her monthly column in Brides magazine, and various works for...

In the year that she gave up part-time teaching to become a freelance writer full-time, WC published the first substantial collection of her poems, entitled Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.

EJH 's assignments in 1974 included, as well as the Rose Kennedy interview, acting as one of the three judges of the Booker Prize. (Another judge this year was A. S. Byatt .) Howard received...

EJ was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul. Early in her career she...

Dodie Smith, best known for writing the beloved children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), began her career as a dramatist; she wrote a series of hit plays in the 1930s. In the 1940s...

This book was runner-up (to Brigid Brophy 's) for the Cheltenham Literary Festival's prize for a first novel. It and her second caused IM to be grouped with the so-called socially anarchic school