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A Short Biography of Muriel Spark

Author Name:

Muriel Spark

Born As:

Muriel Sarah Camberg

Other Names:

Born:

01 Feb 1918

Died:

13 Apr 2006




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Novelist, biographer and poet                          
Selected Works:

Novels:
The Comforters - 1957
Robinson - 1958
Memento Mori - 1959
The Ballad of Peckham Rye - 1960
The Bachelors - 1960
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 1961
The Girls of Slender Means - 1963
The Mandelbaum Gate - 1965
The Public Image - 1968 - Shortlisted for Booker Prize
The Driver's Seat - 1970
Not to Disturb - 1971
The Hothouse by the East River - 1973
The Abbess of Crewe - 1974
The Takeover - 1976
Territorial Rights - 1979
Loitering with Intent - 1981 - Shortlisted for Booker Prize
The Only Problem - 1984
A Far Cry From Kensington - 1988
Symposium - 1990
Reality and Dreams - 1996
Aiding and Abetting - 2000
The Finishing School - 2004

Other Works:

Tribute to Wordsworth - edited with Derek Stanford - 1950
Child of Light - a study of Mary Shelley - 1951
The Fanfarlo and Other Verse - 1952
Selected Poems of Emily Brontë - 1952
John Masefield - biography - 1953
Emily Brontë: Her Life and Work - with Derek Stanford - 1953
My Best Mary - a selection of letters of Mary Shelley, edited with Derek Stanford - 1953
The Brontë letters - 1954
Letters of John Henry Newman - edited with Derek Stanford - 1957
The Go-away Bird - short stories - 1958
Voices at Play - short stories and plays - 1961
Doctors of Philosophy - play - 1963
Collected Poems I - 1967
Collected Stories I - 1967
The Very Fine Clock - children's book, illustrations by Edward Gorey- 1968
Bang-bang You're Dead - short stories - 1982
Mary Shelley - complete revision of Child of Light - 1987
Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems - 1982
Curriculum Vitae - autobiography - 1992
Complete Short Stories - 2001
All the Poems - 2004                          
Husband Sidney Oswald Spark, one son.                          
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.