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Spark, Muriel
Scottish-born novelist. Her early novels are mostly dark and witty fantasies, focusing on social misfits, such as feature in The Comforters (1957) (her first novel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963), and A Far Cry from Kensington (1988). Blacker satire is found in Memento Mori (1959), The Mandelbaum Gate (1965), The Driver's Seat (1970), and later novels.
Other works include Collected Poems (1967), The Collected Stories (1994), and the novels Symposium (1990), Realities and Dreams (1996), and Aiding and Abetting (2000). An autobiography up to 1957, Curriculum Vitae was published in 1992.
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Amis, Kingsley (William)
Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest)
Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Golding, William (Gerald)
Greene, (Henry) Graham
Hartley, L(eslie) P(oles)
Huxley, Aldous (Leonard)
Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
Mansfield, Katherine
O'Connor, Frank
Orwell, George
Spark, Muriel
Trevor, William
Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St John)
Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest)
Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Golding, William (Gerald)
Greene, (Henry) Graham
Hartley, L(eslie) P(oles)
Huxley, Aldous (Leonard)
Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
Mansfield, Katherine
O'Connor, Frank
Orwell, George
Spark, Muriel
Trevor, William
Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St John)
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