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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999.
Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century...she kept the traditional novel alive, and in doing so changed what it is capable of Guardian The Time of the Angels is certainly her best; wittier, more lyrical, more deeply felt than ever before. She is an enchantress Sunday Times I can think of few other novelists who could have written so superbly and so surely of the good and evil that encompasses us all Daily Telegraph
