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Profile of John Bayley
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John Bayley |
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27th March 1925 |
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Lahore, India |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
John Bayley (CBE 1999) was born in 1925 in Lahore, Pakistan (then known as Lahore, British India.
Between 1974 and 1992 he was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He is also a novelist and a critic.
In 1956 he married Iris Murdoch. After Iris's death he married Audi Villers, a family friend. He edited Henry James' The Wings of the Dove. In the film Iris he was portrayed in his early years by Hugh Bonneville and in his later years by Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent.
Novels
- In Another Country
- The Red Hat
- Alice (1994)
- The Queer Captain (1995)
- George's Lair (1996)
Other Works
- 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: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch
- Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories
- Widower's House
- Elegy for Iris: A Memoir
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