Kingsley Amis Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis. In 2008, "The Times" ranked Kingsley Amis ninth on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Kingsley Amis
Robin Amis under the title of The Triads: Book One. Amis continued work on this text until his death, revising the translation and preparing a commentary. This work was published in 2016 under the title 'Holy Hesychia: The Stillness That Knows God'. In addition he was also working on another book Kardia, a follow up to A Different Christianity, which detailed and made accessible many aspects of monastic tradition for practical application in ordinary life, which is yet to be published. Amis died in Bristol, England, aged 82 on 13 June 2014. As author As translator/publisher/editor Robin Amis Robin Amis was a