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As Sebastian Matthews relates in this touching, often achingly personal memoir, that journey can be even more trying when son follows famous father's footsteps in both profession and personal dysfunction. William Matthews was a renowned, financially successful poet and academic, a seasoned lover of wine, women and song. His sudden death at 55 both shatters and focuses his son, and spurs him to a literary reconciliation that is as haunting as it is heart-rending.

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Sebastian Matthews (born August 25, 1965) is an American poet, and writer. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA. His books include In My Father's Footsteps (memoir), We Generous (poetry), Miracle Day (poetry) and Beginner's Guide to a Head-on Collision (hybrid). His father is William Matthews. His mother is Marie Harris. He lives with his wife in Asheville, North Carolina. Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction. Vermont Studio Center residency.

In examining his father's death (and life), Sebastian Matthews explores his own chaotic past. A child of divorce, he was shuttled throughout his boyhood between parents and many geographies. In a confusing symbiotic time between Bill's marriages, the teenage son and his father "were roommates and drinking buddies-I took care of him; he parented m. Later came the son's wanderings, the failed commitments. Finally Sebastian learns to confront Bill's mixed legacy.

Collected Poems of William Matthews. 314 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. By Sebastian Matthews. 278 pp. New York: W. W. Norton &. Norton & Company. Some poets get noticed because they sound like no one else; others become representative voices, symbols or symptoms of their group or generation. William Matthews, who died at 55 in 1997, belongs to the latter category.

In My Father’s Footsteps. When the poet William Matthews died, in 1997, his son Sebastian was left with the patchwork legacy of a father who was lovable but evasive-the kind of brilliant man who, when quizzed about his many infidelities, might deftly change the subject to viticulture or the glory days of the Cincinnati Reds. In this memoir, the son recalls his tumultuous childhood, spent shuttling between the hippie encampments where his mother lived and the college towns (with their college girls) through which his father drifted.

Sebastian Matthews is the author of the poetry collection We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (W. Norton)

Sebastian Matthews is the author of the poetry collection We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (W. Norton).

This poignant book by Sebastian Matthews is listed as a memoir of his father, but it could just as easily be found in the biography section

This poignant book by Sebastian Matthews is listed as a memoir of his father, but it could just as easily be found in the biography section. In recounting the life of a brilliant poet and, sometime less than wonderful father, Matthews turned his thoughts inward to give insight into the person he was and eventually struggles to become. This book often reads like a novel, a story of falling and then climbing to reach solid emotional ground