Christopher Matthew
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| Born | Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew 8 May 1939 Lewisham, South London |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
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The King's School, Canterbury St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Genre | Books, radio, television |
| Notable works | Now We Are Sixty, Diary of a Somebody |
| Spouse | Wendy |
| Children | Two sons, one stepdaughter |
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Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born 8 May 1939) is a British writer and broadcaster. He is best known as the author of Now We Are Sixty, inspired by the poems of A. A. Milne in the book Now We Are Six, and as the chronicler of the life and times of the hapless hero, Simon Crisp, in Diary of a Somebody.
Matthew was born in Lewisham, South London. As a child he lived in Merle Common, Surrey, and then in nearby Oxted. He spent most of his teenage years in Burnham Market in Norfolk. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and read English at St Peter's College, Oxford.
After a year spent teaching in a girls' finishing school in Switzerland, Matthew worked as a copywriter in various London advertising agencies including JWT, before becoming a full-time writer in 1970.
His books include Diary of a Somebody, Loosely Engaged, The Long-Haired Boy (adapted for TV as A Perfect Hero, starring Nigel Havers), an annotated edition with Benny Green of Three Men in a Boat, The Junket Man, How to Survive Middle Age, Family Matters, The Amber Room,A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road,Now We Are Sixty,Knocking On, Now We Are Sixty (and a Bit), Summoned by Balls, When We Were Fifty, The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Bourgeois Mishaps. and Dog Treats: An Assortment of Mutts, Mongrels, Puppies and Pooches.
As a journalist, he has been a travel writer for The Sunday Times, a restaurant critic for Vogue, a property correspondent for Punch, and a television and book reviewer for the Daily Mail.
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