Hilary Spurling

Hilary Susan Spurling, CBE (born 1940) is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for her two-volume biography of Matisse in January 2006. She is married to playwright John Spurling, and has three children (Amy, Nathaniel and Gilbert) and one grandchild.

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), winner of the 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year award

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth221 British Council page]