John Bayley was born in
Lahore. Between 1974 and 1992 he was Warton Professor of English at
Oxford. He is also a novelist and a critic. He was married to
Iris Murdoch, and
Jim Broadbent[?] plays him in the film
Iris. After Iris's death he married Audi Villers, a family friend.
- The Red Hat
- Alice
- The Queer Captain
- George's Lair
- Tolstoy and the Novel
- Keats and Reality
- Housman's Poems
- An Essay on Hardy
- Hand Luggage: A Personal Anthology
- Life by Other Means: Essays on D. Enright
- Iris Murdoch: A Memoir
- Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
- Elegy for Iris: A Memoir
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