Matthew McIntosh

Matthew McIntosh (born 1977 in Federal Way, WA) is an American writer known for his 2003 novel Well. His second novel, theMystery.doc, was published in 2017.

Biography

Early years McIntosh is a native of Federal Way, Washington. He graduated from the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle after years of being enrolled on-and-off, during which time he held numerous menial jobs.

Well McIntosh's debut novel was published in 2003, when he was 26 years old. Well is a series of vignettes about the bleak existence of desperate characters living in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way, Washington. The book earned praise for its realistic characters, stark writing style It was both praised and criticized for its structure and unrelated storylines.

theMystery.doc McIntosh's second novel, the 1,660-page theMystery.doc, was published by Grove Atlantic on October 3, 2017. He began working on it shortly after Well was published in 2003. The Washington Post called it "a supersize version of Well" and said that reading it "is like wandering through a gigantic art installation."