Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Following service in the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman’s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century.
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