Date of Birth
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1949
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Place of Birth
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Liverpool
(United Kingdom, England, Merseyside, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Lancashire, North West England)
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Nationality
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Canada
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Also know as
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Matthew Hughes, Hugh Matthews
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Profession
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Novelist, Writer
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Matthew Hughes is a British-born Canadian author who now lives wherever his secondary career as a housesitter takes him, while continuing to write science fiction under the name Matthew Hughes, crime fiction as Matt Hughes and media tie-ins as Hugh Matthews. Prior to his work in fiction, he was a freelance speechwriter for corporate executives and politicians in British Columbia.
His Archonate stories and novels have been compared to the works of Jack Vance. Booklist has called him Vance's "heir apparent."
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