Anthony Powell

Hilary Spurling is the author of numerous biographies, including Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 ; Paul Scott: A Life ; a two-volume biography of Matisse, The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master (also published in the abridged single-volume Matisse: The Life ); and Burying the Bones . She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize for Ivy When Young, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Matisse the Master , and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Burying the Bones . In 2016 she won the Biographers' Club Lifetime Achievement Award.