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Muriel Spark
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Scottish novelist and writer (1918–2006)
OverviewAI-generated
Muriel Sarah Spark (1918–2006) was a Scottish writer, poet, novelist, and playwright. Born in Edinburgh and a citizen of the United Kingdom, she was educated at Heriot-Watt University. Her writing career began in 1957. She is recognized for her novel *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*. Spark was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Literature.
She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize, and the Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Spark identified as a member of the Catholic Church and spoke English. Her archives are held at the National Library of Scotland. She died in Florence.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1918
- Died
- 2006
- Works
- 144
Top works
- Territorial Rights (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels)
- John Masefield
- Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
- Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
- The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1918
- Active to
- 2006
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 67
- Total plays
- 1,362
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Muriel+Spark">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- Cross-talk between
<i>Akkermansia muciniphila</i>
and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity
· 2013 · cited 4,214x
- Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers
· 2013 · cited 4,105x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy
· 2012 · cited 2,927x
- 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)
· 2017 · cited 2,882x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.”
- “Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
- “A life like mine annoys most people; they go to their jobs every day, attend to things, give orders, pummel typewriters, and get two or three weeks off every year, and it vexes them to see someone else not bothering to do these things and yet getting away with it, not starving, being lucky as they call it.”
- “It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
- “New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.”
- “"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème."”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Muriel Sarah Camberg , ( 1918-02-01 ) 1 February 1918, Edinburgh , Scotland
- Died
- 13 April 2006 (2006-04-13) (aged 88), Oliveto , Tuscany, Italy
- Resting place
- Cemetery of Sant'Andrea Apostolo, Civitella in Val di Chiana
- Occupation
- Novelist short story writer poet essayist
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- Heriot-Watt College
- Notable works
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Mandelbaum Gate The Driver's Seat Memento Mori
- Spouse
- Sidney Oswald Spark ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1937 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1940 )
- Children
- Samuel Robin Spark
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Life
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