Biography: Iris Murdoch
| 1919: | Born in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1938-42: | Study at Somerville College, Oxford. |
| 1942-44: | Assistant Principal in the Treasury. |
| 1944-46: | Administrative Officer with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation |
| Administration in England, Belguim, and Austria. | |
| 1947-48: | Sarah Smithson Studentship in philosophy, Newnham College, Cambridge. |
| 1948: | Named Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford. |
| 1953: | Sartre: Romantic Rationalist |
| 1954: | Under the Net. |
| 1956: | Marriage to Mr. John Bayley; The Flight from the Enchanter. |
| 1957: | The Sandcastle. |
| 1958: | The Bell |
| 1961: | A Severed Head. |
| 1962: | An Unofficial Rose. |
| 1963: | Named Honorable Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford;The Unicorn. |
| 1963-67: | Lecturer at Royal College of Art. |
| 1964: | The Italian Girl. |
| 1965: | The Red and the Green. |
| 1966: | The time of the Angels. |
| 1968: | The Nice and the Good. |
| 1969: | Bruno's Dream. |
| 1970: | A Fairly Honorable Defeat. |
| 1971: | An Accidental Man. |
| 1973: | The Black Prince |
| 1974: | The Sacred & Profane Love Machine. |
| 1978: | The writer J. B. Priestley dramatized her 1961 novel, A Severed Hand. |
| The Sea, The Sea, won the Booker Prize. | |
| 1986: | The Good Apprentice. |
| 1987: | Made a Dame of the British Empire. |
| 1992: | Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals: Philosophical Reflections. |
| 1994: | The Green Knight. |
| 1997: | Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. |
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