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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Muriel Spark (born February 1, 1918, Edinburgh, Scotland—died April 13, 2006, Florence, Italy) was a British writer best known for the satire and wit with which the serious themes of her novels are presented.
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Aug 7, 2023 · Muriel Spark, the author of our August Book of the Month, Loitering with Intent (1981), is one of the distinctive geniuses of English-language fiction in the 20th century. She was a writer of astonishing productivity, writing 22 novels which were varied in subject matter but united by her vision.
Mar 2, 2018 · Muriel Spark's 22 novels are slim and entertaining says Alan Taylor, author and editor of the Scottish Review of Books, but behind the jeux d'esprit lies a fearsome intellect. Here he selects five of her key works.
Dame Muriel Spark had an active literary life as poet and biographer before she turned, in 1951, to fiction. It was not until 1957, after conversion to Catholicism, that she published her first novel, The Comforters , a book of extraordinary originality that won the applause of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh - not because they were also ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
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Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scottish poet, essayist, and novelist Muriel Spark (nee Camberg) was educated at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls and Heriot-Watt College. In 1937, she traveled to the country now named Zimbabwe and married Sydney Oswald Spark, from whom she was later divorced.
