John Matteson Biography
John Matteson is a New York City-based English and legal writing professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, his first book, earned the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2008.
John Matteson Age
John was born on March 3, 1961, in San Mateo, California, United States of America. He is 62 years old as of March 2023.
John Matteson Education
Matteson went to Menlo High School in Atherton, California. In 1983, he received an A.B. in history from Princeton University after completing a 178-page senior thesis titled “The Confederate Cotton Embargo, 1861-1862: A Study in States’ Rights.” In 1986, he earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and in 1999, he earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University.
John Matteson Family- Parents
Matteson was born in San Mateo, California, to Thomas D. Matteson (1920-2011), an airline executive who was instrumental in creating the notion of reliability-centered maintenance, and Rosemary H. Matteson (1920-2010), a commercial artist before becoming a homemaker.
John Matteson Married- Wife
John has been married to his wife, Michelle Rollo, since 1991.
John Matteson Career
Before working as a litigation attorney at Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel in San Francisco and Maupin, Taylor, Ellis & Adams in Raleigh, North Carolina, he worked as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle. He has contributed to numerous journals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New England Quarterly, Streams of William James, and Leviathan. His second book, The Lives of Margaret Fuller, was published in January 2012 and won the Ann M. Sperber Prize for the best biography of a journalist or other figure in the media that year.
Matteson appeared in the documentary Orchard House: Home of Little Women, which was released in 2018. Matteson is a former Melville Society treasurer and a member of the Louisa May Alcott Society’s advisory council. Matteson is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the deputy director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography. In 1991, he married Michelle Rollo. They have a child. He is not the same John Matteson who, as a speech professor at Los Angeles City College in 2008, allegedly prohibited a student from delivering a classroom statement opposing same-sex marriage.
John Matteson Net Worth
Matteson has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.