NP: Muriel Spark Dies

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Muriel Spark Dies
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ROME (Reuters) - Ascerbic Scottish-born novelist Muriel Spark, best 
known for her book "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", has died in Italy 
at the age of 88 and was buried in Tuscany on Saturday.

"She was very open. Both fascinating and down-to-earth at the same 
time. Her loss will be very difficult to overcome," Massimiliano 
Dindalini, the mayor of the little Italian town where she lived, told 
Reuters by telephone.

Spark wrote 24 novels, several short stories and three well-received 
biographies during her long career.

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Her last novel, "The Finishing School", was published in 2004.
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