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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.
Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable -- Raymond Mortimer Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century * Guardian * Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour * The Times *
