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.