More than thirty-five years after the turbulence attending the publication of his overwhelmingly popular first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis remains a controversial figure in English letters. Many find him an affable and entertaining novelist wh...

"Crisp, witty, sardonic...." That is one way to introduce Kingsley Amis, the way one editor, Edward Lucie-Smith, took in 1970. Amis's wit began to delight the world in 1954 when his first novel, Lucky Jim, appeared. In verse it had begun to delight his f...

Author of seventeen novels, three poetry collections, and more than twenty short stories, Kingsley Amis is a writer whose literary style defies categorization. In Kingsley Amis (1989) Richard Bradford warns the reader that "Amis is an 'experimental' writ...

The richest suburb in America, according to one professor's new list of the 50 wealthiest, is Kenilworth, Ill., where 3,548 people sleep at night, secure in the knowledge -- only their accountants really know -- that their 1985 per capita income was $48,950. ...

From Sequoia to Acadia, most national parks and historic sites are awash in tourists during the summer months. But it's only the most famous and familiar that are crowded. If you're willing to take the road less traveled, you'll discover you can...