Muriel Spark began writing after the war under her married name. Her first novel was called The Comforters and published in 1957. Her second, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) was more successful and remains her best known book. It has been adapted for television and the cinema on several occasions.
Muriel Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the US Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993, in recognition of her services to literature. She has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1969 for The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent. In 2010 she was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize of 1970 for The Driver's Seat.
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