Background
He was born in Norwich, the son of politician Patricia Hollis and academic Martin Hollis.
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Matthew Hollis
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He has studied at the universities of Edinburgh and New York
Career
He presently lives in London, England, writing as well as serving as a tutor for the London Poetry School and working as an editor at Faber and Faber. Hollis has published a variety of written works. He is perhaps best known for the 2011 non-fiction book Now All Roads Lead to France, a critically acclaimed (praise appearing in The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, and others) biography of seminal English poet Edward Thomas.
The judges for the latter commented: "Dramatic and engrossing.
A brilliant biography that moved us all.".
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Membership
He is a member of the international educational and cultural enhancement organisation the British Council, taking part in the Arts Council"s "First Lincolnshire" program in 2001.
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