Description
The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.
Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amisโs friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on almost a thousand previously unpublished letters, Leaderโs biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amisโs childhood, school-days, life as a teacher, critic, polemicist, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amisโs fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amisโs work.
As the editor of Kingsley Amisโs Letters (hailed in the Sunday Telegraph as โone of the last major monuments to the epistolary artโ), Leader is more than qualified to be his authorized biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate. ISBN:9780224062275
