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- Birth nameMuriel Sarah Camberg
- Muriel Spark was born on February 1, 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), The Driver's Seat (1974) and Teletale (1963). She was married to Sidney Oswald Spark. She died on April 13, 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- SpouseSidney Oswald Spark(1937 - 1943) (divorced, 1 child)
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 413-420. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963, and was awarded an honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978. She received honorary degrees from universities at Oxford, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Strathclyde. Among her literary achievements were the US Ingersoll Foundation T.S. Eliot Award in 1992 and the British Literature Prize in 1997.
- She lived for almost 30 years in the Tuscan village of Civitella della Chiana, Italy.
- She had one son, Robin Spark, from her marriage whilst living in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Her son is a artist.
- Born in Edinburgh, the only daughter of a Jewish Lithuanian engineer father and an English Episcopalian mother, she was educated at the city's James Gillespie's High School for Girls, where she thrived.
- [asked about her favorite portrayal of Jean Brodie] There's a different aspect in every one. Anna Massey and Vanessa Redgrave were really very good, and Zoe Caldwell in New York, they were all brilliant in their ways. But Geraldine McEwan really got the essence of it, probably because she had more time and space in it. She has more scope to express herself.
- [on her erstwhile colleague Dr Marie Stopes] I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth-control.
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