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	[[File:ColinSpencerPhotoForWikipediaArticle.jpg\|thumb\|Colin Spencer in 2011]]'''Colin Spencer''' (~~born~~ 1933) is a writer and artist. He ~~has~~ produced novels, cookery books and stage and television plays. His visual work includes drawings. paintings, and magazine and newspaper illustrations.		[[File:ColinSpencerPhotoForWikipediaArticle.jpg\|thumb\|Colin Spencer in 2011]]'''Colin Spencer''' (1933-2023) was a writer and artist. He produced novels, cookery books and stage and television plays. His visual work includes drawings. paintings, and magazine and newspaper illustrations.

	Colin Spencer was born in [[Thornton Heath]], South London, went to school in [[Brighton]], and studied at Brighton Art College. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg where he treated soldiers who had contracted venereal disease.<ref>[http://colinspencer.co.uk/biog.html Colin Spencer: Biography]</ref>He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens, on the Greek island of Lesbos, and latterly in [[East Sussex]]. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.		Colin Spencer was born in [[Thornton Heath]], South London, went to school in [[Brighton]], and studied at Brighton Art College. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg where he treated soldiers who had contracted venereal disease.<ref>[http://colinspencer.co.uk/biog.html Colin Spencer: Biography]</ref>He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens, on the Greek island of Lesbos, and latterly in [[East Sussex]]. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.
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	[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>		[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

			Colin Spencer died on 6 July 2023, eleven days shy of his 90th birthday

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	His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.		His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.

	A series of drawings of writers of our time was published in ''~~[[Times Literary Supplement\|~~The Times Literary Supplement]]'' in 1959. Those he portrayed included [[John Betjeman]], [[E M Forster]], [[Angus Wilson]], [[Evelyn Waugh]] and [[John Lehmann]]. An oil portrait of E M Forster hung for many years in his rooms at King's College Cambridge. On his death Forster left it to [[Benjamin Britten]] and [[Peter Pears]] and it is now in the Britten-Pears Library in [[Aldeburgh]].		A series of drawings of writers of our time was published in ''The Times Literary Supplement'' in 1959. Those he portrayed included [[John Betjeman]], [[E M Forster]], [[Angus Wilson]], [[Evelyn Waugh]] and [[John Lehmann]]. An oil portrait of E M Forster hung for many years in his rooms at King's College Cambridge. On his death Forster left it to [[Benjamin Britten]] and [[Peter Pears]] and it is now in the Britten-Pears Library in [[Aldeburgh]].

	[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>		[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

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	His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.		His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.

			A series of drawings of writers of our time was published in ''[[Times Literary Supplement\|The Times Literary Supplement]]'' in 1959. Those he portrayed included [[John Betjeman]], [[E M Forster]], [[Angus Wilson]], [[Evelyn Waugh]] and [[John Lehmann]]. An oil portrait of E M Forster hung for many years in his rooms at King's College Cambridge. On his death Forster left it to [[Benjamin Britten]] and [[Peter Pears]] and it is now in the Britten-Pears Library in [[Aldeburgh]].

	[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>		[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

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	His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.		His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.

	The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>		[[File:ColinSpencerPaintingTravellingPlayer.jpg\|thumb\|''Travelling Player'' by Colin Spencer]]The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

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	Colin Spencer was born in [[Thornton Heath]], South London, went to school in [[Brighton]], and studied at Brighton Art College. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg where he treated soldiers who had contracted venereal disease.<ref>[http://colinspencer.co.uk/biog.html Colin Spencer: Biography]</ref>He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens, on the Greek island of Lesbos, and latterly in [[East Sussex]]. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.		Colin Spencer was born in [[Thornton Heath]], South London, went to school in [[Brighton]], and studied at Brighton Art College. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg where he treated soldiers who had contracted venereal disease.<ref>[http://colinspencer.co.uk/biog.html Colin Spencer: Biography]</ref>He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens, on the Greek island of Lesbos, and latterly in [[East Sussex]]. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.

			His published works include ''British Food'', ''[[Homosexuality: A History]]'', and novels including ''Panic'', ''Asylum'', and the novel sequence ''Generation''.

	The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>		The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

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[[File:ColinSpencerPhotoForWikipediaArticle.jpg|thumb|Colin Spencer in 2011]]'''Colin Spencer''' (born 1933) is a writer and artist. He has produced novels, cookery books and stage and television plays. His visual work includes drawings. paintings, and magazine and newspaper illustrations.

Colin Spencer was born in [[Thornton Heath]], South London, went to school in [[Brighton]], and studied at Brighton Art College. He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg where he treated soldiers who had contracted venereal disease.<ref>[http://colinspencer.co.uk/biog.html Colin Spencer: Biography]</ref>He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens, on the Greek island of Lesbos, and latterly in [[East Sussex]]. He has twice been married and has one son and two grandsons.

The first volume of his planned three-part autobiography was been published by Quartet Books, in April 2013. ''Backing into Light: My Father's Son'' tells the story of the first three 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,”<ref>review by Sebastian Wayneflete, ''Fitzrovia News'', Issue 129 Summer 2013</ref> while ''The Spectator'' finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” <ref>review by Duncan Fallowell, ''The Spectator'', 22 June 2013</ref>

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* [http://www.colinspencer.co.uk/ Official website]

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