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.

Novels

  • The Red Hat
  • Alice
  • The Queer Captain
  • George's Lair

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 Murdoch: A Memoir
  • Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
  • Elegy for Iris: A Memoir