num_pages: 512
description: Drawing on hundreds of interviews, letters, and diaries, an authorized biography of the critically acclaimed philosopher and novelist traces her personal life and literary and philosophical career, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's remarkable influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.
language: English
title: Iris Murdoch: A Life
titlecomplete: Iris Murdoch: A Life
genres: Female Authors, Religion, Philosophy, Biography, Politics, Psychology, British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 257
publisher: Norton