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 →
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted... →
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more... →
It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I... →
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge... →
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say... →
What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all... →
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.