Dale Salwak is Professor of English at Southern California's Citrus College and the leading bibliographer of works by and about Kingsley Amis.

This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come...Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. World Literature Today ...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford World Literature Today Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis...informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford Mfs It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford The Hudson Review ...by far the most thorough yet written. CHOICE ...by far the most thorough yet written. CHOICE This is clearly the single indispensible guide to Amis's fiction, unlikely to be surpassed or superceded for many years to come...Salwak's study provides a concise, reliable, indispensible guidebook to Amis's oeuvre-an ideal Baedeker to Philistinia. World Literature Today ...a splendidly spacious, relaxed yet shrewd study of Amis's work. Lucid and very informative, it is ideally suited to the general reader. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford World Literature Today Dale Salwak has skillfully and intelligently managed difficult terrain in his biographical treatment of Kingsley Amis...informed, well-focused and discerning... -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford Mfs It's...a good sign that...some recent books about Amis have been appearing. -- Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford The Hudson Review