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Just a story: for someone who knew her, Iris misses the mark. (Biographical Literaria).

American Prospect, The,  May, 2002  by Lesser, Wendy

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SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1980s, when I was still a graduate student in English at UC Berkeley, I received an invitation from a member of my dissertation committee. He and his wife were having a dinner party for a visiting writer, a much-lionized British novelist who was spending a week or two on the Berkeley campus as a Regents' Lecturer. Was I familiar with the novels, and would I like to come to dinner?

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Yes, indeed, to both questions. And could I, I asked, please bring my--well, whatever word we were using in those days for the man you lived with but hadn't yet married. (I think ...

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