Matt Beaumont

Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist^[1] and former copywriter.

Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers, which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one advertising office. A recent example of an epistolary novel, it is generally recognised as one of the first e-mail novels.^[2]

For the BBC, Beaumont created the storyline of the alternate reality game, Jamie Kane (2005).^[3][4]

He is married to novelist Maria Beaumont. They have two children and live in London.

Not to be confused with Matthew Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in English at University College London.

Novels

• e (2000)
• The e Before Christmas (2000)
• The Book, the Film, the T-shirt (2002)
• Staying Alive (2004)
• Where There's a Will (2007)
• Small World (2008)
• e Squared (2009)

See also

• Carl Steadman's "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story
• List of contemporary epistolary novels.

References

1. ^ "Matthew Beaumont Biography". HarperCollins. http://b2b.harpercollins.co.uk/C3/AuthorDetail/search.aspx?CatID=07029322-dfee-46e3-9da4-9438c6ee8a72&AuthorID=431. Retrieved 8 February 2007. 
2. ^ Forshaw, Barry. "e: A Novel (Paperback)". amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/000710068X/. Retrieved 9 February 2007. 
3. ^ "Jamie Kane". BBC. Archived from the original on 13 August 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060813174144/http://www.bbc.co.uk/jamiekane/credits.shtml. Retrieved 8 February 2007. 
4. ^ "BBC Plans A Mainstream ARG for UK Audience". deaddrop. http://www.deaddrop.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=214. Retrieved 14 August 2005. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Let's Talk About Me, the official web site for Maria and Matt Beaumont
• An interview with Matt Beaumont from bookmunch.co.ok

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