Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an English author, editor, professor, and poet, currently living in London, England.

[3] He is a member of the international educational and cultural enhancement organisation the British Council, taking part in the Arts Council's "First Lines" programme in 2001.

Hollis is perhaps best known for the 2011 non-fiction book Now All Roads Lead to France, a critically acclaimed (praise appearing in The Guardian,[4] The Independent,[5] The Wall Street Journal,[6] and others) biography of seminal English poet Edward Thomas.

"[7] His most recent work is Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, published on 13 October 2022 by Faber and Faber,[8] which has been made book of the year by the Sunday Times, the New Statesman and the Financial Times.

[9] This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub.

The late Edward Thomas - for whom Hollis has been a biographer and editor, and received inspiration from