Grande Therese The Greatest Scandal of the Century

Hilary Spurling was born in 1940 in Stockport England. She attended Somerville College in Oxford. She bacame the arts and theater critic for The Spectator during the 1960's. She was also the reviewer for The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. She is a biographer who has written several biographies - one of which is entitled Matisse The Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954, which won the 2005 Whitebread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize for Biography in 2006. Her latest book is entitled Pearl Buck in China.