The Bell

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was an Irish-born British novelist and philosopher. Born in Dublin, she was raised in London and studied at Oxford, later teaching philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her philosophical work includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and The Sovereignty of Good (1970), and she wrote extensively on ethics, Platonism and the nature of the good. She turned to fiction with her first novel, Under the Net (1954) — later named one of the 100 best English-language novels o...

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize. In 2008, The Times named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Source: [A. S. Byatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt) on Wikipedia.