Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was born in 1919 in Dublin, Ireland, to Anglo-Irish parents and grew up in London. She studied classics and philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked with displaced persons in Europe after World War II before returning to Oxford to teach philosophy. She became a fellow of St Anne's College and published influential philosophical works, including The Sovereignty of Good, which argued for a moral philosophy grounded in the concept of attention to reality rather than individual will. She published her first novel, Under the Net, in 1954, beginning a prolific career that would produce twenty-six novels over four decades. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Sea, The Sea.