Matthew Engel
Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951)[1] is a British writer, journalist and editor.
Early life and education
Engel was born in Northampton, son of solicitor Max David Engel (1912-2005) and Betty Ruth (née Lesser).[2][3] His grandfather had escaped anti-Semitic persecution in Poland.[4]
He was educated at Great Houghton Prep School,
Career
He began his career in 1972 as a staff journalist on
Engel was the Visiting Professor of Media at the University of Oxford for 2011.[6]
He was elected as a councillor for Herefordshire in October 2023 in a by-election for Golden Valley South ward.[7][8]
Personal life
Engel lives on an old farm in Herefordshire. In 1990, he married former editorial director at Pan Books Hilary, daughter of Laurence Davies.[9] They had a son, Laurie, and adopted a daughter, Victoria (Vika), from Russia.[10][11] Laurie died of cancer in 2005, aged 13, and Engel set up a successful charity fund in his memory, the Laurie Engel Fund, which has raised more than £1.2m in partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust to build a new unit for patients in Birmingham (opened 2010) and for a cancer centre scheduled for 2018. The proceeds of a book he wrote, Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan), are donated to this fund. His book, That’s The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language (Profile Books) was published in June 2017.
Works
- The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, 1952-79 (Atlantic Books, 2022) ISBN 978-1-786-49667-6
- That’s The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language (Profile Books, 2017) ISBN 978-1-78125-668-8
- Engel's England: thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man (Profile Books, 2014) ISBN 978-1-84668-571-2
- Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (Macmillan, May 2009) ISBN 978-0-230-70898-3
- Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan, 2007) ISBN 978-0-330-44954-0 and his Financial Times columnabout it
- The Bedside Years: The Best Writing from the Guardian 1951–2000 (Atlantic, 2001) ASIN B000Y11LQW
- Tickle The Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press (Orion, 1996) ISBN 978-0-575-40083-2
- Thirty Obituaries from Wisden (editor) (Penguin Books Ltd, 1996) ISBN 978-0-14-600248-9
- The History of ISBN 978-0-7136-8024-9
- Sports writer's eye: an anthology (Queen Anne Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-356-17844-8
- The Guardian Book of Cricket (Pavilion Books, 1986) ISBN 978-0-14-010445-5
- Ashes '85 Pelham Books, 1985) ISBN 978-0-7207-1645-0
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (editor) (John Wisden & Co Ltd)
- 2007 ISBN 978-1-905625-05-5
- 2006 ISBN 978-0-947766-99-3
- 2005 ISBN 978-0-947766-90-0
- 2004 ISBN 978-1-84032-857-8
- 2000/The Millennium Edition ISBN 978-0-947766-58-0
- 1999 ISBN 978-0-947766-51-1
- 1998 ISBN 978-0-947766-45-0
- 1997 ISBN 978-0-947766-39-9
- 1996 ISBN 978-0-947766-32-0
- 1995 ISBN 978-0-947766-25-2
- 1994 ISBN 978-0-947766-23-8
- 1993 ISBN 978-0-947766-21-4
- 2007
- The Sportspages Almanac: Complete Sporting Factbook (with Ian Morrison) (Simon & Schuster Ltd)
- 1992 ISBN 978-0-671-71080-4
- 1991 ISBN 978-0-671-71600-4
- 1990 ISBN 978-0-671-65314-9
- 1992
References
- ISBN 978-1-905625-16-1.
- ^ Debrett's People of Today, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2006, p. 507
- ^ "About us | Max Engel Solicitors".
- TheGuardian.com. 29 May 1999.
- ^ "Matthew Engel » Biography".
- ^ Visiting Professor of Media Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, University of Oxford
- ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — By-elections 2023-10-26". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ "Herefordshire poll win for writer as railway station reopening tops issues". Hereford Times. 2023-10-28. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ Debrett's People of Today, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2006, p. 507
- TheGuardian.com. 29 May 1999.
- TheGuardian.com. 3 December 2005.
External links
- Official website
- Column archive at The Financial Times
- Column archive at The Guardian
- Author profile at PanMacmillan
- The Laurie Engel Fund official website
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