Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch

"There would be no need to complain of literary biographies...if they were all as good as Conradi's."—John Updike, The New YorkerIris: A Life of Iris Murdoch is already regarded as the standard, authorized biography of one of the most important female novelists and thinkers of the twentieth century. Three years after her death, Iris Murdoch has begun to fascinate a whole new generation of readers, and a movie about her life was released in early 2002. In this critically acclaimed biography,...