Matthew Goodman is the bestselling author of three books of non-fiction.
His essays, articles, short stories, and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, the Village Voice, the Forward, Bon Appetit, and many other publications, and have been cited for Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Story anthologies.
Matthew has taught creative writing and literature at Vermont College, Tufts University, Emerson College, and at writers’ conferences including the Antioch Writers Workshop and the Chautauqua Institution. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (twice) and the Corporation of Yaddo.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
Books in order of publication:
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York – 2008
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World – 2013
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team – 2019
Paris Undercover – 2025
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