It is no surprise that one of Muriel Spark's most lively and entertaining works would be her own memoir, Curriculum Vitae. Born to a Scottish Jewish father and an English Presbyterian mother, Spark describes her childhood in 1930s Edinburgh in brief, dazzling anecdotes. In one...
A vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Spark's work--Edinburgh of the 1920s; her Jewish father; her Presbyterian, English mother; and of course the original Miss Jean Brodie. A short cracker of a book, full of love and malice, black wit, intelligence...
Reissued ahead of the Muriel Spark Centenary in 2018.
Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original...