Muriel Spark, 1918-2006
by sernabad
Muriel Spark, wonderfully prolific novelist, essayist, and poet, died April 13, in Italy.
Shaped by her conversion to Catholicism when she was 36, Ms. Spark wrote with an almost reportorial calmness, often spiced with dry wit, about the absurdities and tragedies of everyday life.
One of her most beloved books, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into a play starring Vanessa Redgrave (in London) and Zoe Caldwell (Broadway); the latter won a Tony for her performance in 1968. A year later, Maggie Smith won an Oscar for the same role on the silver screen.
Ms. Spark was 88.
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