Question: Iris Murdoch and William Goyen were both what?
Context: The House of Breath is a novel written by the American author William Goyen.  It was his first book, published in 1950.  It is not a novel in the usual sense in that it lacks traditional plot and character development.  Upon its publication, reviewers noted the book for its unusual literary technique and style.  Goyen called it a series of “arias”.  Some critics have called it not a novel at all but a work to be read as poetry, over and over.  The book touches on themes of family (kinship), human sexuality, place, time, and memory.  It received critical acclaim upon its publication, not commercial success, but it did lead the way for support of the author’s further work through fellowships. Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, and Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for the Writing Arts there.  Gibbons has published numerous books, as well as poems, short stories, essays and reviews in journals and magazines, has held Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships in poetry and a research fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C.  He has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison, Jr.  Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in "Best American Poetry" and "Pushcart Prize" anthologies.  His book "Creatures of a Day" was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry.  He attended public school in Spring Branch (at that time, outside Houston, Texas; now incorporated into the city), Princeton University (BA Spanish and Portuguese), and Stanford University (MA in English and Creative Writing; PhD in Comparative Literature).  Before moving to Northwestern University, he taught creative writing at Princeton and Columbia.  At Northwestern, he was the editor of "TriQuarterly" magazine from 1981 to 1997, and co-founded TriQuarterly Books (after 1997, an imprint of Northwestern University Press).  As the editor of "TriQuarterly", he edited or co-edited the special issues "Chicago" (1984), "From South Africa: New Writing, Photography and Art" (1987), "A Window on Poland" (1983), "Prose from Spain" (1983), "New Writing from Mexico" (1992), and others, as well as many general issues of the magazine.  He edited two works of William Goyen (1915-1983): the 50th Anniversary edition of "The House of Breath" and the Goyen's posthumously published second novel, "Half a Look of Cain" (both published by Northwestern University Press).  In 1989, he was one of a group of co-founders of the Guild Literary Complex (Chicago), a literary presenting organization, where he continues to volunteer, and he is a member of the large team that is creating the American Writers Museum (Chicago; opening in 2017). Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley, about his marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years.  Bayley also wrote two more books about his life with Murdoch, "Iris and Her Friends" and "Widower's House". "In the Icebound Hothouse" by is a short story by American writer William Goyen, originally published in 1985. .  It is included in the anthology "American Gothic Tales" edited by Joyce Carol Oates'. Iris is a 2001 British-American biographical drama film that tells the story of Irish novelist Dame Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley.  The film contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch (Kate Winslet) was an outgoing, dominant individual as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley (Hugh Bonneville), and their later life, when Murdoch (Judi Dench) was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and tended to by a frustrated Bayley (Jim Broadbent) in their North Oxford home in Charlbury Road. Irving Malin (March 18, 1934 – December 3, 2014) was an American literary critic.  Malin attended Thomas Jefferson High School and Jamaica High School and graduated magna cum laude from Queens College in 1955 and received his PhD.  from Stanford University in 1958.  He married Ruth Lief in 1955 and they remained married until his death.  He taught at the City College of New York from 1960 until his retirement in 1996.  Malin did his dissertation on the fiction of William Faulkner and made his initial academic mark as a critic of American Jewish Literature, editing an early collection on the fiction of Saul Bellow as well as a critical book and a general anthology on Jewish literature in the US.  He subsequently became interested in writers who practiced innovative techniques such as James Purdy and John Hawkes as well as writers who broke down the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction such as William Styron and Truman Capote.  One of the pioneering academics to take an interest in metafiction and experimental writing, Malin was an early contributor to the "Review of Contemporary Fiction", writing over five hundred book reviews for this and other publications (like the "Hollins Critic").  In the latter portion of his career, Malin edited several anthologies of essays on Henry James, Thomas Pynchon, William Goyen, George Garrett, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Leslie Fiedler, and William Gass.  He was a fellow at Yaddo and the Huntington Library and served on many boards and award panels.  Malin died December 3, 2014. Toni Strassman (1895–1984) was an authors' representative based in New York City.  Her clients included Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues, John and Martha Clayton, William Goyen, Harry Mark Petrakis and Friderike Zweig, the first wife of Stefan Zweig. The Sovereignty of Good is a book of moral philosophy by Iris Murdoch.  First published in 1970, it comprises three previously published papers, all of which were originally delivered as lectures.  Murdoch argued against the prevailing consensus in moral philosophy, proposing instead a Platonist approach.  "The Sovereignty of Good" is Murdoch's best known philosophy book. Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.  Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence his work for his entire life. Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, 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 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.  In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.  Her books include "The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "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).  In 2008, "The Times" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Answer: novelist