The Life of Kingsley Amis
Zachary Leader in conversation with Martin Amis at the London Review Bookshop, 28 November 2006
In The Life of Kingsley Amis (Cape), Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in postwar British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Leader, whose editing of Amis's Letters was described as 'omniscient' by John Carey, discusses the book with Kingsley's son, the novelist and journalist Martin Amis, and, in the process, presents a full picture of his subject's childhood, school days, and life as a teacher, professional author, husband, father and lover.