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Muriel Spark

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

February 01, 1918

Died

April 13, 2006

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

Influences

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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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Average rating: 3.66 · 115,426 ratings · 12,518 reviews · 193 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 55,701 ratings — published 1961 — 201 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) 3.61 avg rating — 10,304 ratings — published 1970 — 58 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 — 7,507 ratings — published 1963 — 74 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 3.83 avg rating — 6,321 ratings — published 1988 — 61 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 3.62 avg rating — 6,536 ratings — published 1959 — 94 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 3.78 avg rating — 4,610 ratings — published 1981 — 59 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 3.45 avg rating — 2,473 ratings — published 1960 — 59 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 3.61 avg rating — 1,894 ratings — published 1957 — 48 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 — 1,682 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
	The Finishing School 3.10 avg rating — 1,758 ratings — published 2004 — 35 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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March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages

11 votes, 23.4%

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

7 votes, 14.9%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes

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