Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher who lived from 1919 to 1999 and became known for exploring complex moral and philosophical questions through her novels and academic work. She remains influential for her contributions to both literature and philosophy, examining themes of love, morality, and human relationships in ways that continue to be studied and discussed today.
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) 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 (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Unofficial Rose (1962), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher's Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993).
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1919 births1999 deaths20th-century atheists20th-century British dramatists and playwrights20th-century British non-fiction writers20th-century British novelists20th-century British philosophers20th-century British poets20th-century British women novelists20th-century British women poets20th-century Irish women writersAlumni of Newnham College, Cambridge