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Harry Mathews (1930 - ) is an American author of numerous novels, volumes of poetry, and essays. He is the only American member of French writing group Oulipo. Heir to an enormous fortune left to him by his architect father, Mathews has been able to devote himself throughout his life to his writing without needing to care about its capacity to make money.

He graduated from Harvard in 1952 after leaving Princeton. He met artist Niki de Saint Phalle, herself heir a large family fortune, when he was 12. They married young, moved to France, had two children, and divorced. Using money inherited from a grandparent Mathews helped fund the journal Locus Solus (named after a novel by Raymond Roussel) which he edited along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch. Mathews is married to the writer Marie Chaix and splits his time between Paris, Key West, and New York.

Bibliography

Partial list of works:

• The Conversions (novel)
• Tlooth (novel)
• The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (novel)
• Cigarettes (novel)
• The Journalist (novel)
• My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (memoir/novel) (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005)
• 20 Lines a Day (journal) (Dalkey Archive Press, 1989)
• The Human Country (short stories) (Dalkey Archive, 2002)
• Singular Pleasures (short fiction)
• The Case of the Persevering Maltese (essays) (Dalkey Archive, 2003)
• Selected Declarations of Dependence (poems and short fiction)
• Oulipo Compendium, edited with Alistair Brotchie (encyclopedia on the Oulipo)

External links

Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Mathews' essay on translation at the Electronic Book Review

An Interview with Alexander Laurence: Mathews talks about his life and writing (from 1990)

An Interview with John Ashbery: Mathews talk to his friend, the poet Ashbery (1987). From the Review of Contemporary Fiction.

Interview with John Ash from The Review of Contemporary Fiction 1987.

Reading Harry Mathews, an essay by John Beer from Context Magazine

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