John Bayley

Professor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 1925, Lahore, Pakistan — then known as Lahore, British India) is a British literary critic and writer. From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He is also a novelist and writes literary criticism for several newspapers. He edited Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove" and a two-volume selection of James' short stories.

From 1956 until her death in 1999, he was married to the writer Dame Iris Murdoch. When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book "Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch", which was made into the 2001 film "Iris" by Richard Eyre. In this film Bayley was portrayed in his early years by Hugh Bonneville and in his later years by Jim Broadbent, who won an Oscar for the performance. After Murdoch's death he married Audi Villers, a family friend. He was awarded the CBE in 1999.

Novels

* "In Another Country" (1986)
* "Alice" (1994)
* "The Queer Captain" (1995)
* "George's Lair" (1996)
* "The Red Hat" (1997)

Other works

* "Keats and Reality" (1969)
* "Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary" (1971)
* "An Essay on Hardy" (1978)
* "Shakespeare and Tragedy" (1981)
* "The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen" (1988)
* "Tolstoy and the Novel" (1988)
* "Housman's Poems" (1992)
* "Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch" (1998)
* "Elegy for Iris: A Memoir" (1999)
* "Iris and her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire" (1999)
* "Widower's House" (2001)
* "Hand Luggage: A Personal Anthology" (2001)

External links

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,6000,458429,00.html Interview with John Bayley]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/31 NYRB bibliography of John Bayley]