Books by Muriel Spark
About
Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was born and educated in Scotland. She worked for Britain's Foreign Office during WWII, served as general secretary of the Poetry Society and editor of The Poetry Review, and, before turning to fiction, published a series of critical biographies of literary figures. She wrote more than twenty books, including The Comforters, Memento Mori, The The Girls of Slender Means, and Symposium. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
