Dr Matt Fullerty

Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, English Teacher____Chess player, Marathon Runner, Scuba Diver, Daydream Believer____"You can't go home again." Thomas Wolfe

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The Murderess and the Hangman: Update

Hello! I'm happy to report that I've written about half of my second novel The Murderess and the Hangman, about 52,000 words. I aim to make it past 90-100,000 words, but that remains to be seen. All in all, I should have a complete draft in October / November.  

 

Please see this link for more details about The Murderess and the Hangman. I just hope you like murder and mayhem, hangings, detective fiction, a grimy London of the nineteenth century, and a female killer. Hopefully this book brings them all to life. As Russ Abbott would say, "I love a party with an atmosphere." 

Right, back to it!
Happy reading, and happy writing!
 
Matt Fullerty

 

The Pride and the Sorrow: Bookhabit Novel Award - Winner!

Bookhabit.com is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Bookhabit Unpublished Novel Competition is Matt Fullerty's The Pride and the Sorrow.
 


Matt receives a US$5000 prize and is "thrilled" about winning the first Bookhabit competition. We will be posting an interview with Matt on Bookhabit.com shortly. Congratulations from Bookhabit!
 

 

The Pride and the Sorrow: Book Review, June 2008

 
New Zealand novelist Geoff Cush, a member of the Bookhabit judging panel, had the following to say about the Bookhabit Award 2008:
 
"What made Matt Fullerty's writing stand out, from the very first sentence, was an unusually strong and individual way with words. Taking us into the vanished world of old America and Europe he uses a highly textured language to give an almost physical experience of being in that place and time. Drawing subtle lines between a society top-heavy with leisure and the profligate genius it produced in Morphy, he holds back the historical and personal reckoning while letting it gather and brood like the storm that finally washes away New Orleans. In my view this makes The Pride and the Sorrow a stand-out all rounder in the craft of literary fiction. 
 
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This page was last updated on June 16, 2009

The Pride and the Sorrow:

Novel Award 2008, Book Review and Podcast Interview

 

 

 

Click above on The Pride and the Sorrow book cover!

Matt Fullerty: Writer Biography

Matt Fullerty was born in Warrington, England and educated at Oxford University (B.A. English) and the University of East Anglia (M.A. Creative Writing), and has a Ph.D. in English from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. He currently teaches as Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, the University of London.
 
The Pride and the Sorrow is Matt's first novel. He is now writing a London murder story called The Murderess and the Hangman about an Irish maid who murders her landlady for a few pieces of furniture...and then impersonates her on a murderous spree around London!

 

You can contact Matt at fullerty@gmail.com

 

The Pride and the Sorrow: Press Release

Paul Morphy's story is a rites of passage tale about a boy who becomes famous by playing chess. It is also a cautionary tale about New Orleans, family pride and a mind who cannot cope with the real world...The Pride and the Sorrow is a cross between Josh Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer (about a chess prodigy) and Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense (about chess causing madness). Paul resists gambling and dueling and despite Morphy family rivalries he takes on the Europeans at their own game. But the red-light district and temptations on the other side of New Orleans are never far away... 

 

 

 

The Pride and the Sorrow: Interview, June 2008

A 23-minute interview with Matt is now available through www.reviewyak.com with Clare Tanner of the Bookhabit Show. "Every month over 20,000 listeners download our podcasts for The Bookhabit Show where we tell the author's story behind the story."

        The Academic Novel: Ph.D. dissertation

For more details about my academic work in British and American literature, specifically my PhD dissertation about the "academic novel," please follow this link.


Taking my Ph.D. at George Washington University, I became interested in fiction with professors and students as central characters. I undertook a historical study of the academic genre, from the comic novels of David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury, as well as Kingsley Amis, to specific studies such as Humbert Humbert in Nabokov's Lolita (1955), and modern fiction by writers including Willy Russell, Tom Sharpe, Michael Chabon, Margaret Edson, Tim O'Brien, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Don DeLillo, Bernard Malamud, Richard Russo and J. M. Coetzee. It has been a great experience to write about all these writers and the academic tropes they draw on and re-shape!

 

My dissertation is entitled The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorroamane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self (2008) and is currently available through Proquest. 

 

Matt Fullerty: CV

For my full academic CV, please follow this link. (It is better viewed in Internet Explorer than Firefox).