Hilary Spurling
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Hilary Spurling (born 1940) is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer.
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
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