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Harry Mathews

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born

February 14, 1930 in New York City, New York, The United States

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Harry Mathews (born February 14, 1930) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.

Together with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, Mathews founded and edited the short-lived but influential literary journal Locus Solus (named after a novel by Raymond Roussel, one of Mathews's chief early influences) from 1961 to 1962.

Harry Mathews was the first American chosen for membership in the French literary society known as the Oulipo, which is dedicated to exploring new possibilities in literature, in particular through the use of various constraints and algorithms. The late French writer Georges Perec, likewise a member, was a good friend, and the two translated some of each other's writing...more

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Books by Harry Mathews

Average rating: 3.95 · 1,617 ratings · 185 reviews · 38 distinct works

	My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 3.85 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Cigarettes by Harry Mathews, Dalkey Archive Press 4.09 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Tlooth 3.74 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Conversions 3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1962 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews, Francesco Clemente (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Journalist 3.97 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium 3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:
	20 Lines a Day 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Human Country: New and Collected Stories 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Oulipo Compendium (Atlas Arkhive, #6) by Alastair Brotchie (Editor), Jean-Louis Bailly (contributor), Jacques Barine (contributor) 4.41 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating: