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, ; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian Americans, Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his life as a national of the ...

, 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 U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry ...

. 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 city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, England, the son of the poet Stephen Spender and the pianist Natasha Spender."Matthew Spender." ''Contemporary Authors Online''.

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, 2017. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-12-16.

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