Victoria Glendinning
Two Good Children and One Bad One
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.
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