Murdoch was brought up in Chiswick and educated in progressive independent schools, entering the Froebel Demonstration School in 1925 and attending Badminton School in Bristol as a boarder from 1932 to 1938. : 67 She was a second cousin of the Irish mathematician Brian Murdoch. When she was a few weeks old the family moved to London, where her father had joined the Ministry of Health as a second-class clerk. Iris Murdoch's parents first met in Dublin when her father was on leave and were married in 1918. Her mother had trained as a singer before Iris was born, and was from a middle-class Church of Ireland family in Dublin. In 1915, he enlisted as a soldier in King Edward's Horse and served in France during the First World War before being commissioned as a Second lieutenant. Her father, a civil servant, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall, County Down. Murdoch was born in Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Irene Alice ( née Richardson, 1899–1985) and Wills John Hughes Murdoch. She was married for 43 years, until her death, to the literary critic and author John Bayley. Her other 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 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).Īs a philosopher, Murdoch's best known work is The Sovereignty of Good (1970). In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Martha Nussbaumĭame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE ( / ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k/ MUR-dok 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.
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