Matthew Burgess

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Matthew Burgess is a full-time professor at Brooklyn College and a part-time teaching artist in New York City public schools. He was fascinated by the lives of saints as a child, and now he loves sharing the stories of his artistic heroes with young readers. Matthew is the author of Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring, and Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn and Berlin.

TITLES

Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings

Drawing On Walls: A Story of Keith Haring 

Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent

Sylvester’s Letter