Hilary Spurling
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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.
Spurling was educated at Clifton High School, an independent school in Bristol in South West England, followed by Somerville College, Oxford.[1]
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.
Contents
Works
- Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 (1974)
- Mervyn Peake: Drawings (1974) editor
- A Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time (1977) as Invitation to the Dance
- 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[2]
References
- ↑ Biography of Hilary Spurling from The Guardian.
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1967 |
Succeeded by Christine Alexander Gillian Beer |
Categories:
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
- British biographers
- British journalists
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Costa Book Award-winning works
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
- People educated at Clifton High School (Bristol)
- Rose Mary Crawshay Prize winners
