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The dimly-lit seminar room gave me my first glimpse of them. John, like Professor Calculus in the Tintin books, was short and bald, with little wings of hair on the sides of his head. He had untied shoelaces and mismatched socks, a stained woolly tie, and fly at half-mast. Soft-voiced and benign, he managed to steer his dazzling talk through an alarming, even spectacular, stutter. Photographs of Iris in her twenties reveal that she’d been a great beauty, and in her youth many Oxford men had fallen in love with her. Though bulky now at sixty, she was still attractive. She had a charming expression, serene yet alert and curious, with short, roughly-cut hair, bright, clear-seeing eyes and (as I later discovered when I kissed her cheek) soft, rosy skin. Her dress was donnish and distinctly non-fashionable: full skirts and shapeless smocks, dark stockings and sensible shoes. Like the title of one of her novels, she seemed both nice and good.

The seminar focused on the form of the novel, especially in Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux

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Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Dame Jean Iris MurdochDBE (MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. 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. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".^[1]
Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Unofficial Rose (1962), 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