Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark was born in 1918 in Edinburgh to a Jewish father and an Anglican mother. She left a brief marriage in Southern Rhodesia; her son would be brought up by her parents in Edinburgh. During the war she worked in the Foreign Office's black propaganda, and in 1954 she converted to Catholicism: she attributed to that moment the possibility of writing. She published some twenty novels. She lived in Italy from 1967, in Rome and then in Tuscany, and died in 2006.

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• NovelThe Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark · 1961Literature