Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist born in Edinburgh to a Jewish father and English mother. She gained fame for witty, satirical novels like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), following a tumultuous early marriage in Rhodesia, wartime intelligence work, and a prolific career spanning 22 novels. Spark lived much of her later life in Italy, dying in Florence at age 88.

Edinburgh, Scotland Feb 1, 1918 Wikipedia
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