Harry Mathews Harry Mathews (born February 14, 1930) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. He is also a translator from the French. Read full biography of Harry Mathews →
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one... →
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody... →
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little... →
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole... →
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone... →
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's... →
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
I love teaching.
I think situations are more important than plot and character.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Harry Mathews Harry Mathews (born February 14, 1930) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. He is also a translator from the French.