Speaking of lairds, Amis himself notes that “Sean Connery’s total wrongness for the film part of Bond is nowhere better demonstrated than [when Bond must impersonate Sir Hilary Bray]. Amis served in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals, earning in 1943 his commission as second lieutenant. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. Kingsley Amis, novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. The second son was Martin Amis, who followed his father to become a famous novelist, if of a very different kind. His son Martin also became a well-known novelist.
Jane and Kingsley lived at Lemmons with Jane's mother and brother, two artist friends, and Kingsley's three children, including the novelist Martin Amis. Kingsley Amis was born in London as the only son of a business clerk. Kingsley Amis, in his invaluable James Bond Dossier (Jonathan Cape, 1965). Mr. Learn more about Amis’s life and career in this article. There he joined the Communist Party, edited the Oxford Labour Club Bulletin.