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Iris Murdoch: A Life

Peter J. Conradi. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2001 Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Iris Murdoch died in England in 1999. Thanks to the memoir of her widower, John Bayley, and to the film, Iris, adapted from it, these facts are familiar. However, anyone who cares about literature, philosophy, and universities should know much more about her. In Iris Murdoch: A Life, Peter Conradi, a novelist and literary critic, and a friend of Murdoch and Bayley, has written a major biography. Murdoch was a brilliant student at Oxford and Cambridge and a teacher at Oxford. Her ...

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