BACK IN 1988 Richard Cohen - then an editor at Hutchinson - was looking around for someone to write a biography of Iris Murdoch. Since it was obviously going to be done anyway, she and her husband John Bayley decided that A N Wilson was the person to do it.

Wilson himself was uncertain. He did not want to write as the 'tame friend', with his subject breathing down hs neck. Also, she was something of a heroine and a role model to him, and he dd not know what he would find. He did some preliminary research; but she,

Literary Review

Sep 2003

Categories

Victoria Glendinning

They’ve Got Their Little Lists

To Keep That Tumult of Weeping at Bay

Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains

Blooming Marvellous

A True Heroine of Her Time

Visions on Oxford Street

She May Have Been Mad but Leonard Was Not to Blame

A Stitch in Time

She Adored Cockneys

Ink & Inclination

Fifty Shades of White

Nursery School of Writers

Party People

Some Cuckoo, Some Nests!

Where the Hearth Is