John Matteson: Difference between revisions

Matteson attended [[Menlo School]] in [[Atherton, California]]. He graduated 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>[http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/john-t-matteson]</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]] 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 new book, ''A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation,'' was published in February, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Worse-Place-Than-Hell-Fredericksburg/dp/0393247074|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.amazon.com}}</ref>