Iris Murdoch

Age: 79

Summary: British author whose 27 novels included The Bell (1958) and The Sea, the Sea (1978) for which she won the Booker Prize and who was named a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1987.

Cause of Death: Complications from Alzheimer's disease

Born: July 15, 1919

Died: February 8, 1999

Location: Oxfordshire, England