BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2009 – 2010

John Matteson

For a biography on Margaret Fuller

John Matteson is Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His scholarship in 19th-century American literature includes articles published in Leviathan, Streams of William James, and The New England Quarterly. His first book, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. During his residency, Matteson worked on The Lives of Margaret Fuller, which was published by Norton in 2012, and received the Ann M. Sperber Biography Award.