Matson Taylor
Matson Taylor is a novelist and design historian. He studied at the Royal College of Art and has taught at museums and universities around the world. He has also worked on Camden Market, appeared in an Italian TV commercial, and been a pronunciation coach for Catalan opera singers.
In 2016 he started writing his first novel, THE MISEDUCATION OF EVIE EPWORTH, inspired by his work at the V&A museum. The novel is about lost mothers, uncoping fathers, and muddled daughters; it’s also the story of when the ‘50s finally became the ‘60s in a small Yorkshire village, with the modern world arriving in all its pop-cultural glory. Published in April 2021 by Scribner UK, the book was chosen for both the Richard & Judy Bookclub and the BBC Radio 2 Bookclub, and went on to become a bestseller.
His second book, ALL ABOUT EVIE, is a sequel, charting the messy end of the 1960s and the choppy beginnings of the 1970s. It’s a book about finding your own way of doing things, a book about letting go, and - most of all - a book about love. Big-hearted, uplifting, bittersweet and tender, the novel has been described as fizzing with wit and alive to the power of friendship in all its forms. ALL ABOUT EVIE was published in July 2022.
Matson is now working on his third novel, which, like his first two, will be a funny book about serious things.