The Mandelbaum Gate

Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist best known for her witty and satirical novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), Memento Mori (1959), and The Comforters (1957). She achieved major literary success with works adapted for stage and film, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Mandelbaum Gate (1965), was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for services to literature.