Author Bio
Matt Fullerty
E-mail: fullerty@gmail.com
Website: www.mattfullerty.com
Dear England: A Letter from America (blog): http://dearengland.blogspot.com
Citizenship: US Permanent Resident (Green Card) and UK Citizen
Matt
Fullerty is the author of two literary historical novels, THE MURDERESS
AND THE HANGMAN, a murder story set in 1879 London, and THE KNIGHT OF
NEW ORLEANS, a novel about a chess genius set in 1850s New Orleans.
THE
MURDERESS AND THE HANGMAN is currently (November 2010) connected to a
national press story in the UK, the discovery of a skull in Sir David
Attenborough’s garden in Richmond, London. The skull turns out to be 131
years old and belongs to the murder victim in Matt’s novel – about the
murder of Julia Thomas by her housemaid – a long-forgotten case that has
now resurfaced!
Matt’s
first novel, THE KNIGHT OF NEW ORLEANS (published Septmber 2011), tells
the life story of New Orleans world chess champion, Paul Morphy, and a
working girl from Basin Street, Clara Young, with whom he becomes
infatuated. It won the Bookhabit Unpublished Novel Award 2008 ($5000),
was Semi-Finalist in the William Faulkner-Wisdom Competition 2008, and a
Second Round choice in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2010. Matt’s
adapted screenplay, also titled THE KNIGHT OF NEW ORLEANS, is
registered with the Writers Guild of America, East.
As
Writer-in-Residence at I-Park Artists’ Enclave in July 2010, Matt
recently began his third novel, AMERICAN CON ARTIST, about a Hungarian
immigrant and art forger who fakes Matisse and Picasso paintings. Elmyr
de Hoyr is a painter who can perfect someone else’s work, but can he
stay out of jail?
Matt has published literary reviews of fiction and poetry in The St. Ann’s Review, short stories in Paper, Scissors, Stone: New Writing from the University of East Anglia, and poetry in Word Riot, THEMA, Island, Fire, Poetry Monthly, Manifold and Weyfarers. His English PhD dissertation The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorromane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self will be published by Parkgate Press in February, 2011.
Matt
has taught MA fiction classes at the University of London, Royal
Holloway, and is currently Professorial Lecturer in English at George
Washington University in Washington, DC, where he teaches classes on
Comedy, British Literature (19th and 20th century) and American Literature (1865-present). He lives in Arlington, Virginia.