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Modern Literature Audio Archive

The series began in the Fall of 2000 with the purpose of celebrating the careers and influence of authors in the Modern Literature Collection. We invite local and visiting writers to read selections of the featured author's work and of their own.

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was born in Dublin, Ireland and wrote more than thirty novels as well as five plays and collections of essays. She was the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. She was made a dame in 1987. From the mid-1990s Murdoch suffered of Alzheimer's disease. She died in Oxford on February 8, 1999.Washington University's Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers contain correspondence between Murdoch and the Lebowitzs spanning three decades.