Iris murdoch biography
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The dimly-lit seminar room gave me my first glimpse of them. John, like Professor Calculus in the Tintin books, was short and bald, with little wings of hair on the sides of his head. He had untied shoelaces and mismatched socks, a stained woolly tie, and flyga eller fly undan at half-mast. Soft-voiced and benign, he managed to steer his dazzling talk through an alarming, even spectacular, stutter. Photographs of Iris in her twenties reveal that she’d been a great beauty, and in her youth many Oxford dock had fallen in love with her. Though bulky now at sixty, she was still attractive. She had a charming expression, serene yet alert and curious, with short, roughly-cut hair, bright, clear-seeing eyes and (as I later discovered when I kissed her cheek) soft, rosy skin. Her dress was donnish and distinctly non-fashionable: full skirts and shapeless smocks, dark stockings and sensible shoes. Like the title of one of her novels, she seemed both nice and good.
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Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (–)
Dame Jean Iris MurdochDBE (MUR-dok; 15 July – 8 February ) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (), was selected in as one of Modern Library's best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In , she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In , The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since ".[1]
Her other books include The Bell (), A Severed Head (), An Unofficial Rose (), The Red and the Green (), The Nice and the Good (), The Black Prince (), Henry and Cato (), The Philosopher's Pupil (), The Good Apprentice (), The Book and the Brotherhood (), The Message to the Planet (), and The Gree
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Iris Murdoch: biography
Iris Murdoch was born Jean Iris Murdoch on July 15, , in Dublin, Ireland. She was the only child of Irene Alice Richardson, who was previously a singer, and Wills John Hughes Murdoch, a civil servant and a World War I veteran. The family moved to London while Murdoch was still a newborn as her father wanted to work in the British government.
Iris Murdoch wanted to be a writer since she was a child. She was dedicated to achieving this dream as she saw how her mother had to give up on her dream after having a child due to stereotypical gender norms. She went to a boarding school in Bristol and later went to study classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and then studied philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. During university, Iris Murdoch had briefly come into contact with famous thinkers such as Jean Paul-Sartre and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In she won a scholarship to study at Vassar College in New York but was denied the offer due to her support for the C