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Daylight Corroboree: a first-hand account of the Wanda Koolmatrie Hoax.
111 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2004
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John Bayley
119 books24 followersProfessor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL was a British literary critic and writer.
Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford. 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.
Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford. 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.
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June 23, 2012
I read this as part of a PhD on Australian literary hoaxes. Certainly this was a very interesting insight into the Wanda Koolmatrie hoax, although sometimes I did find Bayley's prose a bit annoying.
It should be noted that this is NOT the English Professor John Bayley who was married to Iris Murdoch - in case there is any confusion.
It should be noted that this is NOT the English Professor John Bayley who was married to Iris Murdoch - in case there is any confusion.
December 15, 2008
DAylight Corroboree is a no holds barred account of the Wanda Koolmatrie hoax carried out in Australia in 1996 by Bayley and Carmen as a direct assault on the doctrine of political correctness. I found Corroboree both humourous and inciteful and would recommend it to any reader who is concerned with the notion that the thought police are at the door..
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