Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography

Muriel Spark’s bracingly salty memoir is a no-holds-barred trip through an extraordinary writer’s life.

It is no surprise that one of Muriel Spark’s most lively and entertaining works would be her own memoir, Curriculum Vitae. Born to a Scottish Jewish father and an English Presbyterian mother, Spark describes her childhood in 1930s Edinburgh in brief, dazzling anecdotes. In one she recalls a cherished schoolteacher, Christina Kay, who would later be used as the prototype for Miss Jean Brodi...