Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident someone picks up one of these pens … I throw that pen out the window. I ...

Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks ...

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark. By Alexandra Jacobs Because we could all use a laugh. By ...

A new public artwork celebrating Scottish writer Muriel Spark will be installed in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens after ...

When I heard the sad news yesterday that the Scottish poet and novelist Muriel Spark had died, age 88, in Florence (her adopted home for many years), I thought “How suitable that it should have been ...

Renowned for decades for her sparely ironic novels, Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; A Far Cry from Kensington) began as a poet, and has lately returned to the writing of verse. All the ...

In 1993, Muriel Spark read from her memoir, “Curriculum Vitae,” and her novel “The Public Image” at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Her editor at The New Yorker, Charles McGrath, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident ...

It was on Easter Saturday that we heard the sad news that the Scottish poet and novelist Muriel Spark had died, age 88, in Florence (her adopted home for many years). We thought, “How suitable that it ...

DAME Muriel Spark, who died on Thursday aged 88, was one of the most elegant and incisive of British novelists, famous for her astringent, vigorous prose and for the sinister and disorientating ...

She loved lightning. It wasn’t her favorite weapon—fire was, or knives. But lightning has a brutal, beautiful efficiency, and she used it to good effect, once frying alive a pair of lovers. Lightning ...