Martin Stannard

Apart from her 1992 memoir, CURRICULUM VITAE, Muriel Spark has remained stoically reticent about her long life. Now in her eighties she shuns interviews. But after admiring Stannard's two volume life of Evelyn Waugh she agreed that he should be her official biographer. With access to all her papers ...

Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, "Curriculum Vitae," recorded her early years but blurred her darker moments: troubled relations with her family, a terrifying...

Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, ...

Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, recorded her early years but politely blurred her darker moments: troubled relations with her family, a ter...