February 1st, 2002
Scottish novelist Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961), is born in 1918 in Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark, b. February 1, 1918, d. 2006
Born Muriel Camberg to an English Jewish father and an English Anglican mother, Spark eventually became a Catholic, a Scot, and a prizewinning novelist. In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) she created one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction; she published twenty-two novels, all of them moving and accomplished, several volumes of short stories, and a dozen other books.
Suggested Reading Novels The Comforters, 1957. Memento Mori, 1959. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961. The Girls of Slender Means, 1963. The Mandelbaum Gate, 1965. The Driver’s Seat, 1970. Loitering with Intent, 1981. Short stories Complete Short Stories, 2001. Biography John Masefield, 1954. Emily Brontë: Her Life and Work, 1953. Autobiography Curriculum Vitæ, 1992.
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