Matthew Sturgis


Matthew Sturgis is a British historian and biographer.

Early life

Sturgis earned a degree in history at the University of Oxford.

Career

Sturgis has written art criticism for Harpers & Queens, travel journalism for The Sunday Telegraph, book reviews for The Independent, and cartoons for the Oldie and the Daily Mail.
The Independent called his 1998 Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography "impressively researched".
Reviewing Oscar: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable." The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years ago.

Personal life

He is married to the art dealer and gallerist Rebecca Hossack, and they live in a Georgian house in Fitzrovia, London.

Publications