Background
Spurling, Hilary was born on December 25, 1940 in Stockport, England. Daughter of Gilbert Alexander Forrest and Emily Maureen Armstrong F.
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Spurling, Hilary (2007) Paperback
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
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“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated baseless fabrications about his private life. Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse’s attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable. Here for the first time is the truth about Matisse’s models, especially two Russians: his pupil Olga Meerson and the extraordinary Lydia Delectorskaya, who became his studio manager, secretary, and companion in the last two decades of his life. But every woman who played an important part in Matisse’s life was remarkable in her own right, not least his beloved daughter Marguerite, whose honesty and courage surmounted all ordeals, including interrogation and torture by the Gestapo in the Second World War. If you have ever wondered how anyone with such a tame public image as Matisse could have painted such rich, powerful, mysteriously moving pictures, let alone produced the radical cut-paper and stained-glass inventions of his last years, here is the answer. They were made by the real Matisse, whose true story has been written down at last from start to finish by his first biographer, Hilary Spurling. From the Hardcover edition.
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Ivy When Young: Early Life of I.Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Spurling, Hilary (2004) Paperback
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908
( Hilary Spurling presents a thorough and riveting accoun...)
Hilary Spurling presents a thorough and riveting account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter.
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Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Spurling, Hilary (1991) Hardcover
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(The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell ) Author: Hilary Spurling Jun-2003
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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
(Here is the real "Julia" from 1984--George Orwell's wife ...)
Here is the real "Julia" from 1984--George Orwell's wife and widow Sonia, in all her sadness, splendor, and ferocity. "A full and fascinating portrait of a complex, strong, and puzzling personality." --Literary Review. The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend, biographer Hilary Spurling, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W. H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon. She was Cyril Connolly's indispensable assistant on the influential literary magazine Horizon during the 1940s, and in the '60s she co-edited the groundbreaking four-volume collection of Orwell's nonfiction writings. But after the failure of her second marriage, Sonia's life began to go wrong, ending in penury and despair due to the burden unwittingly placed on her by George Orwell at his death. Some have since seen her as a mythical heroine; others have depicted her as mean and mercenary. Spurling portrays the real Sonia Orwell in all her generous, spirited, ferocious, and self-doubting complexity.
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(Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 ) Author: Hilary Spurling Oct-2007
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Paul Scott: A Life
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Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in India and the Far East, the development of his fiction and the characters on whom his most famous creations were based. The author also wrote "Ivy When Young", "Secrets of a Woman's Heart", "Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time" and "Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book".
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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling (2002-01-01) Hardcover
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Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet
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Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won England's prestigiuos Booker Prize for fiction, but the praise lavished on his final novel, Staying On, came too late to repay years of critical neglect and poor sales. In this brilliant biography, Spurling uncovers the dark secrets of his remarkable life. Photographs.
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Matisse The Master - A Life Of Henri Matisse - The Conquest Of Colour, 1909-1954
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- The Unknown Matisse: The Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1, 1869-1908
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling (2001-10-01)
- Ivy When Young: The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett: 1884-1919
- Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Hilary Spurling (1991-05-01)
- Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth (One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary America...)
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 (Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century ...)
- Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China (Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, P...)
- Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 (“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from...)
- Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling (2011-04-07)
- The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling (2003-05-01)
- Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling (2007-10-02)
- Matisse the Master; a life of Henri Matisse, volume two, 1909 - 1954.
- By Hilary Spurling - Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth (Reprint) (5/29/11)
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
- Ivy When Young: Early Life of I.Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
- Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling (1990-10-25)
Hilary Spurling
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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.
Career
Arts editor; theatre critic The Spectator, 1964—1969, literature editor, 1966—1970.
Achievements
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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.
Works
book
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
(Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century ...)
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Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet
(Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won England'...)
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908
( Hilary Spurling presents a thorough and riveting accoun...)
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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
(One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary America...)
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
(“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from...)
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
(“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from...)
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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
(Here is the real "Julia" from 1984--George Orwell's wife ...)
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Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China
(Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, P...)
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Paul Scott: A Life
(Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Book...)
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Ivy When Young: Early Life of I.Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
(. dw, 1974, 319pp)
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Spurling, Hilary (2007) Paperback
(Reprint)
- The Unknown Matisse: The Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1, 1869-1908
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling (2001-10-01)
- Ivy When Young: The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett: 1884-1919
- Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Hilary Spurling (1991-05-01)
- The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Spurling, Hilary (2004) Paperback
- Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling (2011-04-07)
- Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Spurling, Hilary (1991) Hardcover
- (The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell ) Author: Hilary Spurling Jun-2003
- The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling (2003-05-01)
- Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling (2007-10-02)
- Matisse the Master; a life of Henri Matisse, volume two, 1909 - 1954.
- By Hilary Spurling - Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth (Reprint) (5/29/11)
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
- (Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 ) Author: Hilary Spurling Oct-2007
- The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling (2002-01-01) Hardcover
- Ivy When Young: Early Life of I.Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
- Matisse The Master - A Life Of Henri Matisse - The Conquest Of Colour, 1909-1954
- Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling (1990-10-25)
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
Connections
Married John Spurling, 1961. 3 children.
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United Kingdom
Education
Awards
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire; James Tait Black Memorial Prize Duff Cooper Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography 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 ChinaCommander of the Order of the British Empire; James Tait Black Memorial Prize Duff Cooper Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography 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