The Resume

(April 22, 1922-October 23, 1995)
Wrote 'Lucky Jim (1954),' 'I Like It Here (1958),' 'One Fat Englishman (1963),' 'Colonel Sun' (published under the pseudonym 'Robert Markham,' 1968), 'The Green Man (1969),' 'Jake's Thing (1978),' 'Stanley and the Women (1984),' 'The Old Devils (1986),' 'Memoirs (1991),' 'The Russian Girl (1992),' and 'The King's English' (published posthumously, 1997)
Father of the novelist Martin Amis

Why he might be annoying:

He was a womanizer who cheated on both his wives.
He was an alcoholic.
He was impotent.
He went from being an arrogant young liberal to an arrogant old conservative.
He was a snob about grammar, and wrote a whole book, 'The King's English,' complaining about other people's mistakes.

Why he might not be annoying:

His first wife was just as promiscuous as he was.
When his second marriage fell apart, he went back to his first wife.
His books are bitter, hilarious, and sad.
He loved jazz and science fiction.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Booker Prize Winners (Ranked: 1986)
• Chess Names
• I Attended Oxford
• I Died in 1995 (Ranked: 73)
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Write Sci-Fi
• Knights
• Look at Me, I'm Thirsty
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught with Alcohol
• More Chins than are in a Chinese Phone Book
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 88)
• Profiles 10501-10750 (Ranked: 10673)
• Satirists and Wits
• Served in World War II
• Snaggle Tooth
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 1]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 44 Votes: 29.55% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 29 Votes: 75.86% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 84 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 158 Votes: 72.15% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 234 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 244 Votes: 69.26% Annoying