Hilary Spurling
Hilary Spurling CBE, FRSL ( born December 25, 1940 in Manchester, England) is a British journalist, writer and biographer.
Life
Spurling was at the Clifton High School, a non-governmental school in Bristol in southwest England, brought up before she went to the University of Oxford to study. From 1962-1970 she worked as a theater and literary critic for the British magazine The Spectator. Even today (2011 ) to publish book reviews in The Observer and The Daily Telegraph.
Spurling is married to playwright John Spurling and has three children.
Works
- 2006: from the English by Matthias Wolff: La Grande Thérèse: The Story of a century hoax. Berenberg, Berlin ISBN 978-3-937834-17-7.
- 2006: translated by Jürgen Blasius: Matisse - life and work. DuMont, Cologne 2006 ISBN 3-8321-7704-3.