Brian Matthews (1936–2022) was an Australian literary scholar, biographer and short story writer.
After teaching in various schools in the 1950s and 1960s, he moved to Adelaide in 1967 to work at Bedford Park Teachers' College, but soon joined the new English Department at Flinders University.
Matthews took a leading role in the establishment of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
It went on to win the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal,[4] and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for non-fiction.
In the meantime he published The Temple Down the Road, an eccentric history of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in 2003, and a memoir A Fine and Private Place in 2000.