Editing Kingsley Amis (section)

==Family==
Amis's first, 15-year marriage was to [[Hilary Bardwell]],<ref>Hilary Amis was later wife to the classicist [[D. R. Shackleton Bailey]] (married 1967; divorced 1975) and [[Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock|the late Lord Kilmarnock]] (married 1977; died 19 March 2009). She had a son James or Jaime, born still out of wedlock, by her third husband (often called her second husband by the media), who was therefore unable to inherit his father's peerage.</ref> the daughter of a civil servant,<ref name=Martin>Mira Stout. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/amis-stout.html "Martin Amis: Down London's Mean Streets"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108205127/http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/amis-stout.html |date=8 November 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', 4 February 1990. Sunday, Late Edition – Final Section 6; p. 32, Column 1; Magazine Desk.</ref> by whom he had two sons and one daughter: Philip Amis, a graphics designer;<ref name="Martin"/> [[Martin Amis]], a novelist who died in 2023;<ref>[[Boyd Tonkin]], [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/martin-amis-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-231583.html "Martin Amis: The man who fell to earth"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707015719/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/martin-amis-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-231583.html |date=7 July 2022 }}, ''[[The Independent]]'', 13 May 2000.</ref> and [[Sally Amis]], who died in 2000.

Amis was married a second time, to the novelist [[Elizabeth Jane Howard]] from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children. At the end of that marriage, he went to live with his former wife Hilary and her third husband, in a deal brokered by their two sons Philip and Martin to ensure he could be cared for until his death.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Eric |title=Sir Kingsley Amis obituary: From angry young man to old devil |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1995/oct/23/fiction.kingsleyamis |access-date=21 May 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=23 October 1995 |archive-date=23 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023170545/https://www.theguardian.com/books/1995/oct/23/fiction.kingsleyamis |url-status=live }}</ref>