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Name
  
Hilary Spurling


Role
  
Writer

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Education
  
Clifton High School, Bristol, University of Oxford, Somerville College, Oxford

Awards
  
New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Costa Book of the Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

Nominations
  
Samuel Johnson Prize, NCR Book Award

People also search for
  
Therese Humbert, Henri Matisse, Ann Dumas

Books
  
Matisse the Master: A Life of He, The Unknown Matisse, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buc, Matisse: The Life, La Grande Thérèse

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Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL (born 25 December 1940) is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer.

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Spurling was educated at Clifton High School, an independent school in Bristol in South West England, followed by Somerville College, Oxford.

She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006. Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China was published in March 2010.

She is married to playwright John Spurling, and has three children (Amy, Nathaniel and Gilbert) and six grandchildren.

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Works

  • Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 (1974)
  • Mervyn Peake: Drawings (1974) editor
  • Invitation to the Dance, A Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (1977)
  • Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969 (1984)
  • Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking (1986)
  • Paul Scott: A Life (1990)
  • Paper Spirits. Collage Portraits by Vladimir Sulyagin (1992) introduction
  • The Unknown Matisse: Volume 1 - A Life of Henri Matisse 1869-1908 (1998)
  • La Grande Thérèse: The Greatest Swindle of the Century (1999) on Thérèse Humbert
  • The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2002)
  • Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954 (2005)
  • Ann Stokes: Artists' Potter (contributor) (2009)
  • Matisse: The Life (abridged version of two earlier works) (2009)
  • Pearl Buck in China (also published as Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck) (2010)
  • Awards

  • 1976, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
  • 1984, Duff Cooper Prize for Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
  • 2005, Whitbread Book of the Year award for Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954
  • 2010, James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, for Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
  • References

    Hilary Spurling Wikipedia


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