A new biography of the Scottish novelist casts doubt on the peculiar life events that inspired some of her work, while ...

Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident someone picks up one of these pens … I throw that pen out the window. I ...

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark. By Alexandra Jacobs Because we could all use a laugh. By ...

Renowned for decades for her sparely ironic novels, Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; A Far Cry from Kensington) began as a poet, and has lately returned to the writing of verse. All the ...

Novelist Muriel Spark, who died last week at the age of 88, was memorable not just for her writing (including the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), but for her beloved pets. And now an ...

Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks ...

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An extraordinary and unique talent like Muriel Spark deserves a biography that does her oeuvre justice, one that participates in the sophisticated intellectual discourse of her fiction and synthesizes ...

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It was on Easter Saturday that we heard the sad news that the Scottish poet and novelist Muriel Spark had died, age 88, in Florence (her adopted home for many years). We thought, “How suitable that it ...

She loved lightning. It wasn’t her favorite weapon—fire was, or knives. But lightning has a brutal, beautiful efficiency, and she used it to good effect, once frying alive a pair of lovers. Lightning ...