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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (September 30, 1906November 12, 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and "straight" novels published under his real name and for the whodunits published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other "identity", and vice versa.

Stewart was born in Edinburgh and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He went on to study psychoanalysis in Vienna. He was lecturer in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, and then became Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

He returned to the United Kingdom to become Lecturer in English at the Queen's University of Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he held a professorship within the university. His quintet of novels, collectively titled A Staircase in Surrey, was published between 1974 and 1978. The individual novels making up this series are:

He also wrote studies of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and Thomas Hardy. His last publication was his autobiography Myself and Michael Innes (1987).

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