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.
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