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Matthew McIntosh | |
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| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2003–present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Well(2003) theMystery.doc(2017) |
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Matthew McIntosh (born 1977 in Federal Way, WA) is an American writer known for his 2003 novel Well. His second novel, theMystery.doc, was published in 2017.
McIntosh is a native of Federal Way, Washington. [1] He graduated from the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle after years of being enrolled on-and-off, during which time he held numerous menial jobs. [1] He also attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. As a second-year workshop student, he won Playboy magazine's short story contest for university students for his story "Fishboy." [2]
McIntosh's debut novel was published in 2003, when he was 26 years old. [3] Well is a series of vignettes about the bleak existence of desperate characters living in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way, Washington. [4] The book earned praise for its realistic characters, [3] [5] stark writing style [1] and for being ambitious. [6] It was both praised and criticized for its structure and unrelated storylines. [5] [7] [8]
McIntosh's second novel, the 1,660-page theMystery.doc, was published by Grove Atlantic on October 3, 2017. He began working on it shortly after Well was published in 2003. [9] It tells the story of an amnesiac writer trying to write an ambitious follow-up novel to a previous work. It contains many subplots, unusual page layouts, styles and fonts, as well as photos. [10] [11] The Washington Post called it "a supersize version of Well" and said that reading it "is like wandering through a gigantic art installation." [9]
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