As a Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at Princeton University, he delivered a series of six lectures on sf in 1959, forming part of the inaugural Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism the choice of subject might have seemed surprising but was in fact suggested by his superior at Princeton, as Amis later recorded. Though best known for such social comedies as his first novel, Lucky Jim ( 1954), which won him the sobriquet "Angry Young Man" (a journalistic catch-phrase of the 1950s, applied to several very different authors including Colin Wilson), he was also closely connected with sf throughout his professional life. He took his MA at Oxford, and was a lecturer in English at Swansea 1949-1961 and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1961-1963. (1922-1995) UK author, poet and critic father of Martin Amis.
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