The novelist Muriel Spark was as elusive as her characters. A fellow writer said she could be “two different women on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When I went into my Muriel Spark phase a few months back, I soon learned that she had had a When I went into my Muriel Spark phase a few months back, I soon learned that she had had a relationship ...

While doing some research for a column on John L’Heureux, I had the occasion to re-read Picnic in Babylon, his memoir of his years studying theology. Between the scholars he met and the writers whose ...

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 ...

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 ...