NYTimes.com: John Bayley, an Oxford don and literary critic who found an international readership with his memoir “Elegy for Iris,” a moving account of his life with the novelist Iris Murdoch, his wife, after she was struck by Alzheimer’s disease, died on Jan. 12 at his home in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. He was 89.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
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I have to say I thought it was really appalling of him that publish the first essay and book about Murdoch while she was still alive--and so passive-aggressive in tone. After she died, he really made a little cottage industry out of his marriage to one of the most formidable novelists of the 20th century and the unfortunate fact that she happened to have Alzheimer's. Now Iris Murdoch is primarily known as a woman with memory loss played by Judi Dench.
/Dismounting soap box.
//Going back to read The Time of the Angels for the tenth time.
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