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Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman’s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching (“I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day”) . Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteenyear marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.  \nRACHEL CUSK is the author of two memoirs and seven novels, including The Country Life, The Lucky Ones, and Arlington Park. Her most recent novel, Outline, was published in 2015 .  \nOTHER BOOKS BY KINGSLEY AMIS PUBLISHED BY NYRB CLASSICS  \nThe Alteration  \nIntroduction by William Gibson  \nEnding Up  \nIntroduction by Craig Brown  \nGirl, 20  \nIntroduction by Howard Jacobson  \nThe Green Man  \nIntroduction by Michael Dirda  \nLucky Jim  \nIntroduction by Keith Gessen  \nThe Old Devils  \nIntroduction by John Banville  \nOne Fat Englishman Introduction by David Lodge  \nTake a Girl Like You  \nIntroduction by Christian Lorentzen  \nDEAR ILLUSION Collected Stories  \nKINGSLEY AMIS  \nForeword by RACHEL CUSK  \nNEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS  \nNew York  \nTHIS IS ANEW YORK REVIEW BOOK  \nPUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS  \n435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [www.nyrb.com](www.nyrb.com)  \nCopyright © 1955, 1956, 1962, 1958, 1962, 1972, 1960, 1958, 1964, 1972, 1986, 1960, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1972, 1980, 1993 by Kingsley Amis  \nForeword © 2011 by Rachel Cusk All rights reserved.  \nCover art: Eric Hanson; cover design: Katy Homans  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amis, Kingsley.  \n[Short stories. Selections]  \nDear illusion : collected stories / by Kingsley Amis ; foreword by Rachel Cusk.  \n1 online resource.—(New York Review Books classics)  \nDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. ISBN 978-1-59017-825-6 (epub)—ISBN 978-1-59017-824-9 (alk. paper)  \nI. 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