Peter J. Conradi

Not to be confused with Peter Conradi, another author. For other people with similar names, see Peter Conrad (disambiguation).

Peter J. Conradi is a British author and academic.

Career

He is known as a biographer, having written Iris Murdoch: A Life, an official biography of his friend Iris Murdoch, and also a life of Angus Wilson. He is English Professor Emeritus at Kingston University.

Conradi also wrote the book, "Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me." He is a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and follows the Shambhala Buddhist lineage.

Works

• John Fowles (1982) (ISBN 0-416-32250-6)
• Iris Murdoch. The Saint and the Artist (1986) (ISBN 0-312-43614-9)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1987) (ISBN 0-312-02053-8)
• Angus Wilson (1997) with Isobel Armstrong and Bryan Loughrey (editors) (ISBN 0-7463-0803-5)
• Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch (1999) editor
• Iris Murdoch: A Life (2001) and later revisions (ISBN 0-393-04875-6)
• Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch (2002) (ISBN 0-393-32401-X)
• Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me (2005) (ISBN 1-904095-63-1)
• At the Bright Hem of God (2009) (ISBN 1-85411-490-7)