Matthew Spender

Matthew Spender is an English sculptor. He is author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (1999), a biography of his father-in-law, the artist Arshile Gorky; and A House in St. John’s Wood (2015), forthcoming this season from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, about his father, the poet Stephen Spender.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2016*

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