An article that appeared in last week’s Guardian announced that Edinburgh will honor the late novelist Muriel Spark by laying a flagstone inscribed with her name and a quotation in the courtyard outside the Writer’s Museum, just off the Royal Mile. Spark’s stone will join those of fellow Scottish literary greats such as Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dame Muriel Spark died April 14, 2006, at the age of 88. She is perhaps most widely known for penning the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Maggie Smith in the title role. Her fiction portrayed human frailties with a cool, satirical touch.
Read the Guardian article about Dame Muriel’s Edinburgh memorial here.
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