Frances Wilson.
FRANCES WILSON: MURIEL SPARK BIOGRAPHY
ELECTRIC SPARK: THE ENIGMA OF MURIEL SPARK (2025)
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (1918 – 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Her first novel, The Comforters, was published to great critical acclaim in 1957. Its main theme is a young woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) was even more successful.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frances Wilson (born 1964) read English at Oxford University, and took her DPhil on Henry James and Freud at Sussex University. She taught English Literature at Reading University for ten years before in 2005 becoming a full time writer. The author of several biographies, she writes reviews for several publications including the Times Literary Supplement.
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