Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark, Muriel Sarah Camberg pseudonym, was born in February 1918 in Edinburgh. He married in 1937 and moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he had a son. However, their marriage did not last. During World War II he worked on anti-Nazi propaganda for the British Foreign Office. He converted to Catholicism in 1954 and moved to Italy in 1967.
Spark was twice nominated for the prestigious Booker Prizes. His latest novel, The Finishing School, was published in 2004 His best known work is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He died in Italy at age 88 and was buried in Tuscany on April 15, 2006.