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'''John Matteson''' (born March 3, 1961) is an American professor of English and legal writing at [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2012/06/25/three-new-cuny-distinguished-professors |title=Three New CUNY Distinguished Professors – CUNY Newswire – CUNY |publisher=Cuny.edu |date=2012-06-25 |accessdate=2013-11-01}}</ref> He won the 2008 [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]] for his first book, ''[[Eden's Outcasts]]: The Story of [[Louisa May Alcott]] and [[Amos Bronson Alcott|Her Father]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Richard Ellmann |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography |title=The Pulitzer Prizes &#124; Biography or Autobiography |publisher=Pulitzer.org |date= |accessdate=2013-11-01}}</ref>

Born in [[San Mateo, California]], Matteson is the son of Thomas D. Matteson (1920–2011), an airline executive jointly responsible for developing the theory of [[reliability-centered maintenance]], and Rosemary H. Matteson (1920–2010), who worked as a commercial artist before becoming a homemaker.

Matteson attended [[Menlo School]] in [[Atherton, California]]. He earnedgraduated with an [[A.B.]] in [[history]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1983 after completing an 178-page-long senior thesis titled "The Confederate Cotton Embargo, 1861-1862: A Study in [[States' rights|States' Rights]]."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Matteson|first=John Thomas|date=1983|title=The Confederate Cotton Embargo, 1861-1862: A Study in States' Rights|url=http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp017p88ch78n}}</ref> He then received a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1986, and a [[Ph.D.]] in English from [[Columbia University]] in 1999.<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/john-t-matteson]|title = John T. Matteson|date = 23 March 2014}}</ref> He served as a law clerk for [[U.S. District Court Judge]] [[Terrence W. Boyle]] before working as a litigation attorney at Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel in [[San Francisco]] and with Maupin, Taylor, Ellis & Adams in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]. He has written articles for a wide variety of publications, including ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New England Quarterly]]'', ''Streams of William James'', and ''Leviathan.'' His second book, ''The Lives of [[Margaret Fuller]]'' was published in January 2012 and received the 2012 [[Ann M. Sperber Biography Award]] Prize as the year's outstanding biography of a journalist or other figure in media. It was also a finalist for the inaugural Plutarch Award, the prize for best biography of the year as chosen by the Biographers International Organization (BIO), and was shortlisted for the [[PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography]]. His [[W. W. Norton & Company]] annotated edition of ''[[Little Women]]'' was published in November 2015, featuring many exclusive photographs from Alcott's childhood home, [[Orchard House]], as well as numerous illustrations and stills from the various film adaptations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Annotated Little Women|url=https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Annotated-Little-Women/about-the-book/description|access-date=2020-11-21|website=wwnorton.com|language=en}}</ref> Matteson's most recent book, ''A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation,'' was published in February 2021.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-0393247077|title=A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation|last1=Matteson|first1=John|year=2021|publisher=National Geographic Books }}</ref> It focuses on [[Walt Whitman]], [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]], [[Louisa May Alcott]], [[Arthur Buckminster Fuller]], and [[John Pelham (officer)|John Pelham]].

[[Category:Columbia UniversityGraduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni]]

[[Category:Princeton University alumni, 1980–89]]