Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris is author, musician, playwright, critic and journalist. His writing has been praised by Irwin Shaw, Edward Dahlberg, Virgil Thomson and Philip Jose Farmer. His The Holy City was called "one of the great novels of the 20th century" by Home Planet News.

Brooklyn born, he hitchhiked over the world for ten years, made his living most of his life in athletics, adjuncted a bit, ran a prestigious poetry workshop, edited The Brooklyn Literary Review, had about forty plays produced off-off Broadway in New York, acted, directed, and was given kudos by Show Business as a pop singer. He has performed with Pete Seeger and Schlomo Carlebach. He ran a radio program for four years on WNYC-FM, interviewing in depth most of the famous composers and authors in America. His video plays have been picked as part of an avant garde American television festival on England's Channel Four.