Matt Fullerty

About Me

Please see http://www.mattfullerty.com for my biography/crime novels The Pride and the Sorrow and The Murderess and the Hangman. Thank you! -- I am a Brit lost in America. My novel The Pride and the Sorrow is with my trusty agent, James Wills of Watson, Little Ltd, London. I currently teach as Professorial Lecturer in English at the George Washington University, Washington, DC and as Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Why do you write?

To stop the VOICES! Please see Dear England: A Letter from America at http://dearengland.blogspot.com.

Born in England, learned stuff at Oxford, taught Creative Writing at the University of London, left for the promised land. 7 years deep in my American adventure. Got my PhD. Swapped my American agent for a British one. Am I British or American at this point? Here's to our special misunderstood relationship with our American cousins, the Massachusetts rebels. Check out my biography/crime novels at mattfullerty.com. The British are here!

Any favorite authors? Books?

Currently reading "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham, based on the life of Paul Gauguin - who abandoned his wife and children because "I want to paint."

-Charles Dickens
-Vladimir Nabokov
-Jack Kerouac
-Thomas Wolfe
-F. Scott Fitzgerald