description: 35pp , Writers and Their Work COLLECTION N229 . ENGLISH , with photograph of the author in black and white frontispiece ABOUT THE BOOK :: Muriel Sarah Camberg , known as Muriel Spark, DBE , ( Edinburgh, February 1, 1918 - Florence, April 13, 2006 ) , it was a novelist it britnica.Naci in Edinburgh ( Scotland). His father was an English Jew , of Italian descent , and his mother, a anglicana.1 studied English at James Gillespie 's High School for Girls. In 1934-1935 he took a course in business correspondence in the Heriot - Watt College. She taught English for a short period before working as a secretary in a tienda.2 At 19 she married SO Spark and went to live in Rhodesia, where they had a son . Then they separated, Muriel returned to England and worked in the Foreign Office in workings of military counterintelligence, since 1944. He was awarded the DBE . He met and had great friendship with Graham Greene. He became known for his novel The Comforters ( The consoling , 1957 ) , who signed with the surname Spark ; then continued writing regularly , with a sharp and effective style. He also wrote in the New Yorker. Since 1954, he converted to Catholicism , he lived in Italy.
language: English
title: Muriel Spark
titlecomplete: Muriel Spark (Writers and their work)
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publisher: Published for the British Council by Longman Group