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Article: Muriel Spark.(Author Profile)(Biography)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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DAME MURIEL SPARK, born in 1938 in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been a professional writer since the 1940s. The author of nearly fifty novels, plays, nonfiction studies, and poetry and short-story collections, she made her publishing debut with Child of Light, a biography of Mary Shelley (1951); The Fanfarlo, a collection of verse (1952); and The Comforters (1957), a novel. Many of her best-known works, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1963), have been adapted for film, theater, and radio. She has also published studies of the Bronte sisters and of English poet laureate John Masefield as well as essays and a play, Doctors of ...
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