Matthew Spender

Matthew Spender (born 1945) is an English sculptor. He is the author of ''From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky'' (1999), a biography of his father-in-law, the artist

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his ...

, and ''A House in St John's Wood'' (2015), about his father, the poet

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the ...

. He also wrote ''Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place'' (1992, Viking, and 1993, Penguin.) Spender was born in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, England, the son of the poet Stephen Spender and the pianist

Natasha Spender Natasha Spender, Lady Spender (''née'' Litvin; 18 April 1919 – 21 October 2010) was an English pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender. She was born in London. Her maternal family emigrated to Britai ...

."Matthew Spender." ''Contemporary Authors Online''.

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