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Hilary Spurling

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January 01, 1940 in The United Kingdom

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Biographies & Memoirs

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

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Books by Hilary Spurling

Average rating: 3.76 · 594 ratings · 156 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth 3.67 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 4.06 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Unknown Matisse, 1869-1908 4.09 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century 3.18 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Invitation to the Dance by Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell 3.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ivy, The Life Of I. Compton Burnett 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Matisse: The Life 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Secrets Of A Woman's Heart: The Later Life Of Ivy Compton Burnett: 1920 1969 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Matisse (3 books)
by Hilary Spurling

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“Interrogated by Pearl about the smell of roasting men and whether the Chinese variety smelled different from white flesh, Wang Amah replied confidently that white meat was coarser, more tasteless and watery, "because you wash yourselves so much.”
― Hilary Spurling, Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

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