Colin Spencer
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Colin Spencer (b. 1933, London) is an English author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is best known as a food critic for The Guardian.
Spencer, who is openly bisexual,[1] met his lover John Tasker in Brighton in 1957, when both were 24 years old. Their off-and-on two-year relationship dramatically changed when Spencer married archaeologist Gillian Chapman in Oct 1959. Tasker went to Australia where he became a theatre director, and died of cancer in 1988. Tasker had arranged for his letters to be returned to Spencer. Upon re-reading them, Spencer published his book Which of Us Two as a form of atonement.
[edit] Works
- Anarchists in Love, 1963 ISBN 0-586-02329-1
- Poppy Mandragora and the New Sex, 1967 ISBN 0586022333
- The Heretic's Feast ISBN 0-87451-760-5 ISBN 0-87451-708-7
- Which of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair, 1990 ISBN 0-14-012823-9
- The Faber Book of Food, 1994 ISBN 0-571-17887-1
- British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History, 2002 ISBN 1-904010-16-4
[edit] References
- ^ Storr, Merl (1999), Bisexuality: A Critical Reader, Routledge, p. 105, ISBN 0415166594
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