John Matteson, Date of Birth

    

John Matteson

American academic

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1961

Profession: biographer, journalist, philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About John Matteson

  • John Matteson (born March 3, 1961) is an American professor of English and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
  • He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.Born in San Mateo, California, Matteson is the son of Thomas D.
  • Matteson (1920–2011), an airline executive jointly responsible for developing the theory of reliability-centered maintenance, and Rosemary H.
  • Matteson (1920–2010), who worked as a commercial artist before becoming a homemaker. Matteson attended Menlo School in Atherton, California.
  • He earned an A.B.
  • in history from Princeton University in 1983, a J.D.
  • from Harvard Law School in 1986, and a Ph.D.
  • in English from Columbia University in 1999.
  • He served as a law clerk for U.S.
  • District Court Judge Terrence W.
  • Boyle before working as a litigation attorney at Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel in San Francisco and with Maupin, Taylor, Ellis & Adams in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • He has written articles for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New England Quarterly, Streams of William James, and Leviathan.
  • His second book, The Lives of Margaret Fuller was published in January 2012 and received the 2012 Ann M.
  • Sperber Biography Award as the year's outstanding biography of a journalist or other figure in media.
  • It was also a finalist for the inaugural Plutarch Award, the prize for best biography of the year as chosen by the Biographers International Organization (BIO), and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
  • His annotated edition of Little Women was published in November 2015. Matteson is a former treasurer of the Melville Society and is a member of the Louisa May Alcott Society's advisory board.
  • Matteson is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and has served as the deputy director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  • He married Michelle Rollo in 1991.
  • They have a daughter. He is not the same person as the John Matteson who, as a professor of speech at Los Angeles City College in 2008, allegedly barred a student from giving a classroom speech in opposition to same-sex marriage.

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