Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kingsley Amis NPG x135683

© estate of Daniel Farson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Farson

Born in London and educated at Oxford, Amis combined writing with lecturing English at Swansea (1949-61), Cambridge (1961-3) and later in the USA. His first novel Lucky Jim (1954), a satire on academic, middle-class life, was an immediate success and linked him to other so-called Angry Young Men. Later novels include Take a Girl Like You (1960), Jake's Thing (1978) and the Booker prize-winning The Old Devils (1986). Despite the contemporary nature of his work, Amis took an increasingly conservative and acerbic view of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.