Kingsley Amis

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

In the second of these years the student editors, Kingsley Amis and James Michie , made their selection under the specific rubric of toughness and modernity.

She found it deeply depressing that this act of violence should have come as no surprise to herself and Kingsley Amis , with their recent experience of Nashville, Tennessee. Murder, she observed, does not come...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...

EJH and Kingsley Amis moved out from London to a house on Hadley Common near Barnet called Lemmons.

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

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

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...

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...

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.

The Times Literary Supplement defined the subject-matter here as the flux of relationships at a level of intimacy which demands the most delicate investigation if we are to discover truth. When Howard was already the...