IM
helped to fill the unaccustomed gap between novels in 1958 by writing a sequence of poems dedicated to her Precious dead, Frank Thompson
and Franz Steiner
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Murdoch
IM
's next serious love-affair was with Franz Baermann Steiner
, a Czech-Jewish poet, scholar, idealist, and mystic. He wrote in his diary on 11 May 1951, Enter Iris Murdoch.
qtd. in
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
