Matthew Sturgis
Matthew Sturgis read history at Oxford, worked for four years in publishing, and since then has made his living by writing art criticism for Harpers & Queens, travel pieces for the Sunday Telegraph, and book reviews for the Independent. His cartoons have been published in the Oldie and the Daily Mail. His previous book, Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, was published in 1995 by Macmillan.