Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark has written at least 68 books. Their most popular book is The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie with 170 saves with an average rating of 3.64⭐.
Author Bio
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.
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. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature".
Spark received eight honorary doctorates in her lifetime. These included a Doctor of the University degree from her alma mater, Heriot-Watt University in 1995; a Doctor of Humane Letters from the American University of Paris in 2005; and Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London, Oxford, St Andrews and Strathclyde.
Spark grew up in Edinburgh and worked as a department store secretary, writer for trade magazines, and literary editor before publishing her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, published in 1961, and considered her masterpiece, was made into a stage play, a TV series, and a film.
1961 • 170 Readers • 164 pages • 3.6
1970 • 68 Readers • 103 pages • 3.5
1959 • 41 Readers • 274 pages • 3.8
1963 • 34 Readers • 140 pages • 3.8
1981 • 23 Readers • 158 pages • 4.2
1988 • 13 Readers • 176 pages • 3.9
1957 • 13 Readers • 214 pages • 3.3
2000 • 12 Readers • 3.6
1960 • 11 Readers • 101 pages • 2.8
1960 • 7 Readers • 232 pages
2000 • 7 Readers • 181 pages • 2.5
2004 • 7 Readers • 181 pages
1990 • 6 Readers • 200 pages • 5
1965 • 6 Readers • 421 pages • 4
1971 • 5 Readers • 91 pages • 3
1958 • 5 Readers • 455 pages • 3
1968 • 4 Readers • 192 pages • 4
1995 • 4 Readers • 476 pages
1974 • 4 Readers • 108 pages
2024 • 3 Readers
1981 • 3 Readers • 192 pages
1996 • 3 Readers • 152 pages
1999 • 3 Readers • 462 pages
1984 • 3 Readers • 189 pages
1958 • 3 Readers • 180 pages • 3
1995 • 3 Readers • 560 pages
2018 • 2 Readers • 448 pages
1991 • 2 Readers • 512 pages
2022 • 2 Readers • 223 pages • 4.3
1979 • 2 Readers • 240 pages
13 The Penguin Books of Short Stories
1984 • 2 Readers • 607 pages
1995 • 2 Readers • 86 pages
1959 • 2 Readers • 8 pages • 3
2018 • 1 Reader • 240 pages • 2
#27 of 50 in British Library Tales of the Weird
2021 • 1 Reader
1959 • 1 Reader • 317 pages
1998 • 1 Reader • 482 pages
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2003 • 1 Reader • 148 pages
1963 • 1 Reader • 182 pages • 4
1974 • 1 Reader • 114 pages • 3
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1968 • 1 Reader • 128 pages
1967 • 1 Reader
1963 • 1 Reader • 160 pages • 4
1974 • 1 Reader • 114 pages
1957 • 1 Reader • 264 pages
1961 • 1 Reader • 170 pages
1957 • 1 Reader • 246 pages
1973 • 1 Reader
1961 • 1 Reader • 180 pages • 2
1992 • 1 Reader • 213 pages
1981 • 1 Reader • 176 pages
1996 • 1 Reader • 425 pages
2001 • 418 pages
1968 • 296 pages
2018 • 96 pages
2016
2009 • 100 pages
2004
1976 • 296 pages
1993 • 557 pages
1961 • 129 pages
1985 • 188 pages
2014 • 166 pages
2018 • 145 pages
2021 • 387 pages