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Muriel Spark

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

February 01, 1918

Died

April 13, 2006

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

Influences

Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Søren Kierkegaard, James Hogg, Alain R ...more

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Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation TS Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993, in recognition of her services to literature. She has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1969 for The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN f ...more

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Muriel Spark’s books

Average rating: 3.66 · 131,035 ratings · 14,947 reviews · 226 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.69 avg rating — 61,048 ratings — published 1961 — 216 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, John Lanchester (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 13,613 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girls of Slender Means 3.65 avg rating — 8,397 ratings — published 1963 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Far Cry from Kensington 3.84 avg rating — 7,226 ratings — published 1988 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memento Mori 3.61 avg rating — 7,394 ratings — published 1959 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loitering with Intent 3.79 avg rating — 5,287 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ballad of Peckham Rye 3.44 avg rating — 2,871 ratings — published 1960 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Comforters 3.59 avg rating — 2,185 ratings — published 1957 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem 3.80 avg rating — 1,699 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Symposium 3.70 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 1990 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

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“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

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“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.”
― Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

tags: cats, composition, concentration, focus, inspiration, writing

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Polls

November 2022 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf, 24 pages, 1917

38 votes, 27.0%

Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 65 pages, 1850

24 votes, 17.0%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 48 pages, 1909

22 votes, 15.6%

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 103 pages, 1970

18 votes, 12.8%

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, 80 pages, 1977

16 votes, 11.3%

Youth by Joseph Conrad, 30 pages, 1898

15 votes, 10.6%

The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, 96 page+-, 1666

8 votes, 5.7%

141 total votes

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