![]() ![]() Her play, Doctors of Philosophy, written in 1962, was staged in London at the Arts Theatre, and in Scandinavia, where it was produced by Ingmar Bergman. The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) was adapted for radio as a musical, winning the 1962 Prix Italia, and Memento Mori, as well as being made into a TV series and adapted for the stage, was broadcast by the BBC. Two other novels, The Driver's Seat (1970) and The Abbess of Crewe (1974), were also made into films, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Glenda Jackson respectively, and three into series for TV, one of which was The Girls of Slender Means (1963), a novel about being young and poor in wartime London. She published many novels, most notably The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), which was made into a film starring Maggie Smith. Her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957. In 1951 she won a short story competition run by The Observer and from then on also wrote fiction. Her own Collected Poems 1 was published in 1967. Her first interest was in poetry, and after World War II she became General Secretary of the Poetry Society and Editor of Poetry Review. In 1937, she went to Southern Rhodesia to marry, returning to England in 1944 after her divorce. She then entered the Political Intelligence department of the British Foreign Office and worked on various forms of subtle propaganda. On leaving school, she studied précis writing at Heriot Watt College while teaching in a private school, later finding employment as a personal secretary. ![]() Dame Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. ![]()
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