Peter J. Conradi is a British author

Author

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 and academic.

Career

He is known as a biographer, having written Iris Murdoch: A Life, an official biography of his friend Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...

, and also a life of Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...

. He is English Professor Emeritus at Kingston University

Kingston University

Kingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, United Kingdom. It was originally founded in 1899 as Kingston Technical Institute, a polytechnic, and became a university in 1992....

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Conradi also wrote the book, "Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me." He is a student of Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.Recognized...

 Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, Jampal Trinley Dradul is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and Shambhala International, a worldwide network of urban Buddhist meditation centers, retreat centers, monasteries, a university, and other enterprises, founded by his father, the Buddhist teacher...

, 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)