Mathews, Harry

Harry Mathews
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Name	Mathews, Harry Gender: M
Birthname	Harry Burchell Mathews
born on	14 February 1930 at 02:40 (= 02:40 AM )
Place	New York, New York, 40n43, 74w0
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	24°54' 08°26 Asc. 14°54'

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Harry Mathews
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Biography

American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language. Mathews invented the "Mathews' Algorithm," a method for producing literary works by transposing or permuting elements according to a predetermined set of rules.

In 1949, during a tour with the United States Navy, he eloped with the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a childhood friend. The couple's first child, a daughter, was born in 1950. After Mathews graduated in 1952 with a B.A. in music, the family moved to Europe; a second child, their son Phillip, was born in 1955. Mathews and de Saint Phalle separated in 1960. He later married the writer Marie Chaix, sister of singer Anne Sylvestre.

Together with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, Mathews founded and edited the short-lived but influential literary journal Locus Solus (named after a novel by Raymond Roussel) from 1961 to 1962.

Mathews died on 25 January 2017 in Key West, Florida from natural causes, aged 86.

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Relationships

• friend relationship with Ashbery, John (born 28 July 1927)

• friend relationship with Koch, Kenneth (born 27 February 1925)

• friend relationship with Perec, Georges (born 7 March 1936)

• spouse relationship with Chaix, Marie (born 3 February 1942)

• spouse relationship with de Saint Phalle, Niki (born 29 October 1930). Notes: 1949-1961

• has other family relationship with Sylvestre, Anne (born 20 June 1934). Notes: Siblings-in-law

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 25 January 2017 (Age 86)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes him in "Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series - Volume 6" edited by Adele Sarkissian (Gale, 1987), p. 223: "I was born in New York on the Upper East Side at 2:40 a.m. on February 14, 1930." Same data in "The way home: selected longer prose" by Harry Mathews [1988] (Atlas Press, 1999), p. 153.

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Both wives)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 86)

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novels, short fiction)

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (Essayist)

• Vocation : Writers : Translator