Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark on how she discovered Miss Jean Brodie.

The writer was born in Edinburgh in 1918 & she reminisces about her preschool life up to the age of five. Sometimes she compares her early infancy with …

Fiction, from 1966: It had the element of experience—perhaps even of truth, and I believed, in those days, that truth is stranger than fiction.

Abdul Ramdez gave Arabic lessons to Frederick Hamilton, who was an official at the British Legation in Israeli Jerusalem & was now worried at the …

Barbara Vaughan sat on the summit of Mount Tabor in Israel trying to separate the facts of her 3-week holiday-pilgrimmage to the Holy Land that were …

Lying on the roof of everything, I listen

Fiction, from 1961: “Even before the official opening of her prime, Miss Brodie’s colleagues in the Junior School had been gradually turning against her.”