muriel spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1918 – 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.

Spark began writing seriously after the war, under her married name, beginning with poetry and literary criticism. In 1947 she became editor of the Poetry Review. In 1953 Muriel Spark was baptised in the Church of England but in 1954 she decided to join the Roman Catholic Church, which she considered crucial in her development toward becoming a novelist.

Between 1955 and 1965 she lived in a bedsit in Camberwell, south-east London. Her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957. Its main theme revolved around a young woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) was more successful.

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