Editing Iris Murdoch (section)

==Biographies and memoirs==
[[Peter J. Conradi]]'s 2001 biography was the fruit of long research and authorised access to journals and other papers. It is also a labour of love, and of a friendship with Murdoch that extended from a meeting at her [[Gifford Lectures]] to her death. The book was well received. [[John Updike]] commented: "There would be no need to complain of [[Biography in literature|literary biographies]] [...] if they were all as good".<ref name=Updike>{{Cite magazine| last = Updike| first = John| title = Young Iris| author-link = John Updike| magazine = [[The New Yorker]]| access-date = 17 February 2015| date = 1 October 2001| url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/01/young-iris| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150217223023/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/01/young-iris| archive-date = 17 February 2015}}</ref> The text addresses many popular questions about Murdoch, such as how Irish she was and what her politics were. Though not a trained philosopher, Conradi's interest in Murdoch's achievement as a thinker is evident in the biography, and yet more so in his earlier work of literary criticism, ''The Saint and the Artist: A Study of Iris Murdoch's Works'' (Macmillan, 1986; HarperCollins, 2001). He also recalled his personal encounters with Murdoch in ''Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me'' (Short Books, 2005). Conradi's archive of material on Murdoch, together with Iris Murdoch's Oxford library, is held at [[Kingston University]].<ref>[http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/iris-murdoch/ Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217093027/http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/iris-murdoch/ |date=17 December 2008 }} Kingston University, Retrieved 9 April 2011.</ref>

An account of Murdoch's life with a different ambition is given by [[A. N. Wilson]] in his 2003 book ''Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her''. The work was described by [[Galen Strawson]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' as "mischievously revelatory" and labelled by Wilson himself as an "anti-biography".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,1036391,00.html|title=Telling Tales|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|last=Strawson|first=Galen|date=6 September 2003|access-date=19 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521034217/http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,1036391,00.html|archive-date=21 May 2007}}</ref> 

David Morgan met Iris Murdoch in 1964, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art.<ref name=Conradi2001 />{{rp|475}} His 2010 memoir ''With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch'', describes their lifelong friendship.<ref>{{cite web|title=With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch|url=http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/kup/publications/love-rage/|website=[[Kingston University|Kingston University London]]|access-date=24 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716180534/http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/kup/publications/love-rage/|archive-date=16 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="tele_Dame">{{Cite web| title = Dame Iris Murdoch letters reveal secret love affair| last = Roberts| first = Laura| work = [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]| date = 7 March 2010| access-date = 3 March 2015| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7391143/Dame-Iris-Murdoch-letters-reveal-secret-love-affair.html| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095604/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7391143/Dame-Iris-Murdoch-letters-reveal-secret-love-affair.html| archive-date = 2 April 2015}}</ref>

John Bayley wrote two memoirs of his life with Iris Murdoch. ''Iris: A Memoir'' was published in the United Kingdom in 1998, shortly before her death. The American edition, which was published in 1999, was called ''[[Elegy for Iris]]''. A sequel entitled ''Iris and Her Friends'' was published in 1999, after her death. Murdoch was portrayed by [[Kate Winslet]] and [[Judi Dench]] in [[Richard Eyre]]'s film ''[[Iris (2001 film)|Iris]]'' (2001), based on Bayley's memories of his wife as she developed Alzheimer's disease.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Schudel| first = Matt| title = John Bayley, who stirred controversy with his intimate memoir of his wife, dies at 89| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]| access-date = 20 February 2015| date = 21 January 2015| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-bayley-who-stirred-controvery-with-his-intimate-memoir-of-his-wife-dies-at-89/2015/01/21/91e29c8e-a19c-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150220203951/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-bayley-who-stirred-controvery-with-his-intimate-memoir-of-his-wife-dies-at-89/2015/01/21/91e29c8e-a19c-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html| archive-date = 20 February 2015}}</ref>

In her centenary year, 2019, a collection of unpublished memoirs was published by Sabrestorm Press, entitled ''Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration'', edited by Miles Leeson, who directs the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the [[University of Chichester]], UK.<ref>[https://www.sabrestormfiction.com/product/iris-murdoch-a-centenary-celebration/ Iris Murdoch – A Centenary Celebration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805192624/https://www.sabrestormfiction.com/product/iris-murdoch-a-centenary-celebration/ |date=5 August 2022 }} ''www.sabrestormfiction.com'', Retrieved 31 October 2020.</ref>