Iris Murdoch

<html> <head> <title>Iris Murdoch</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/439/000104127/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Iris Murdoch<img src="iris-murdoch-1.jpg" height=304 width=255 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Iris Murdoch">AKA Jean Iris MurdochBorn: <a href="/lists/714/000106396/" class=proflink>15-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/918/000105603/" class=proflink>1919</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/915/000069708/" class=proflink>Dublin, Ireland</a> Died: <a href="/lists/922/000106604/" class=proflink>8-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/509/000106191/" class=proflink>1999</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/860/000069653/" class=proflink>Oxford, Oxfordshire, England</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/293/000069086/" class=proflink>Alzheimer's</a> Remains: Cremated, Oxford Crematorium, Headington, Oxfordshire, England Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: NovelistNationality: Ireland Executive summary: The Sea, the SeaBoyfriend: <a href="/people/433/000141010/">Elias Canetti</a> (Nobel laureate) Husband: <a href="/people/441/000104129/">John Bayley</a> (novelist and critic, m. 1956, until her death)     High School: Badminton School, Bristol, England     University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">Somerville College, Oxford University (1938-42)</a>     Scholar: <a href="/edu/214/000081968/">Newnham College, Cambridge University (postgraduate study)</a>     Scholar: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">St. Anne's College, Oxford University (fellow, 1948)</a>     <a href="/honors/248/000073029/">Man Booker Prize for Fiction</a> 1978 for The Sea, the Sea     <a href="/honors/303/000051150/">Dame of the British Empire</a> 1987     <a href="/group/812/000091539/">Esperanto speakers</a> Author of books: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (<tt>1953</tt>, criticism) Under the Net (<tt>1954</tt>, novel) The Flight from the Enchanter (<tt>1956</tt>, novel) The Sandcastle (<tt>1957</tt>, novel) The Bell (<tt>1958</tt>, novel) A Severed Head (<tt>1961</tt>, novel) An Unofficial Rose (<tt>1962</tt>, novel) The Unicorn (<tt>1963</tt>, novel) The Italian Girl (<tt>1964</tt>, novel) The Red and the Green (<tt>1965</tt>, novel) The Time of the Angels (<tt>1966</tt>, novel) The Nice and the Good (<tt>1968</tt>, novel) Bruno's Dream (<tt>1969</tt>, novel) A Fairly Honourable Defeat (<tt>1970</tt>, novel) The Sovereignty of Good (<tt>1970</tt>) An Accidental Man (<tt>1971</tt>, novel) The Black Prince (<tt>1973</tt>, novel) The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (<tt>1974</tt>, novel) A Word Child (<tt>1975</tt>, novel) Henry and Cato (<tt>1976</tt>, novel) The Fire and the Sun (<tt>1977</tt>) The Sea, the Sea (<tt>1978</tt>, novel) A Year of Birds (<tt>1978</tt>, poetry) Nuns and Soldiers (<tt>1980</tt>, novel) The Philosopher's Pupil (<tt>1983</tt>, novel) The Good Apprentice (<tt>1985</tt>, novel) Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (<tt>1986</tt>) The Book and the Brotherhood (<tt>1987</tt>, novel) The Message to the Planet (<tt>1989</tt>, novel) Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (<tt>1992</tt>) The Green Knight (<tt>1993</tt>, novel) Jackson's Dilemma (<tt>1995</tt>, novel) Poems by Iris Murdoch (<tt>1997</tt>, poetry) Existentialists and Mystics (<tt>1997</tt>) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! 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