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Colin Spencer is an English writer and artist who has produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of media since his first published short stories and drawings appeared in ''The London Magazine'' and ''Encounter'' when he was 22. His work includes novels, short stories, non-fiction (including histories of food and of homosexuality), cookery books, stage and television plays, paintings and drawings, book and magazine illustrations. He has written and presented a television documentary on vandalism, appeared in numerous radio and television programmes and lectured on food history, literature and social issues. For fourteen years he wrote a regular food column for ''The Guardian''. == Biography == Colin Spencer was born in 1933 in Thornton Heath, London, and was largely brought up in the south of England. From an early age he knew that he wanted to paint and write. He attended Brighton Grammar School and went on to study at Brighton Art College, but he feels now that he is wholly self-educated. His colourful family provided his youthful imagination with rich material for his later novels, as did his passionate emotional involvements with both men and women. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg. He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens and on the Greek island of Lesbos. His first novel was published when he was 28. His portrait of E.M. Forster was painted when he was 29. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons. He has never stopped painting and writing, and now lives in East Sussex where he is writing the second volume of his autobiography, staring with delight at the Seven Sisters, gardening, and producing the paintings he feels he has striven to create throughout his life – (recently described in ''The Financial Times How to Spend It'' magazine ) as "muscular, powerfully envisaged oils", the work of "a remarkable Indian summer".〔Paul Richardson, The Reconnoisseur column, ''How To Spend It'' magazine, ''Financial Times'', 1 November 2011〕 The first volume of his planned 3-part autobiography has recently been published (Quartet Books, April 2013). ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first 3 decades of his eventful life through his wartime boyhood dominated by his raucous, womanising but irrepressible father, to his first successes in the 50s and 60s as an artist, novelist and playwright. They were years which saw ardent affairs with both women and men, a stormy marriage, the birth of a son, and a traumatic divorce. The book has been described as “full of clear-eyed observation and thoughtful reflection, as well as comic incident … unflinchingly honest and exuberantly entertaining,”〔review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013〕 while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” 〔review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Spencer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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