Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. Her autobiography Curriculum Vitae and her complete poems are published by Carcanet. Her novels include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1963), and she edited Poetry Review from 1947 to 1949. Spark was made Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 1996 and awarded her DBE in 1993. She died in 2006.