Matthew Lewis Engel is a British

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 writer and editor who began his career in 1972. He worked on The Guardian

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newspaper for nearly 25 years, reporting on a wide range of political and sporting events including a stint as Washington correspondent beginning on 9/11. He now writes a column in the Financial Times

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. Engel edited the 1993–2000 and 2004–2007 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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, with a short break when he worked in the US. He has been a strong critic of the International Cricket Council

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, international cricket's ruling body. He remains associated with the almanack, and now edits a new publishing imprint Wisden Sports Writing, which aims to publish top-class books on all sports.

Engel is an alumnus

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 of Carmel College, Oxfordshire

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 and Manchester University. He lives in Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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 with his wife Hilary and daughter Vika. His son Laurie died of cancer in 2005, aged 13, and Engel set up a successful charity fund in his memory, the Laurie Engel Fund, which has raised more than £1m in partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust

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 to build a new unit (opened 2010) for patients. The proceeds of a book he wrote, Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan), are donated to this fund.

Works

• Matthew Engel Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (Macmillan, May 2009) ISBN 978-0230708983
• Matthew Engel Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan, 2007) ISBN 978-0330449540 and his Financial Times column about it
• Matthew Engel The Bedside Years: The Best Writing from the Guardian 1951-2000 (Atlantic, 2001) ASIN B000Y11LQW
• Matthew Engel Tickle The Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press (Orion, 1996) ISBN 978-0575061439, paperback (Phoenix, 1997) ISBN 978-0575400832
• Matthew Engel (editor) Thirty Obituaries from Wisden (Penguin Books Ltd, 1996) ISBN 978-0146002489
• Matthew Engel and Andrew Radd The History of Northamptonshire CCC (County Cricket History) (Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, 1993) ISBN 978-0713680249
• Matthew Engel Sports writer's eye: an anthology (Queen Anne Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0356178448
• Matthew Engel The Guardian Book of Cricket (Pavilion Books, 1986) ISBN 978-1851450602 (Penguin Books, 1987) ISBN 978-0140104455
• Matthew Engel Ashes '85 Pelham Books, 1985) ISBN 978-0720716450
• Matthew Engel (editor) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (John Wisden & Co Ltd)
  • 2007 ISBN 978-1905625024, paperback ISBN 978-1905625031, large print ISBN 978-1905625055
  • 2006 ISBN 978-0947766986, paperback ISBN 978-0947766993
  • 2005 ISBN 978-0947766894, paperback ISBN 978-0947766900
  • 2004 ISBN 978-0947766832, paperback ISBN 978-0947766849, audio ISBN 978-1840328578
  • 2000/The Millennium Edition ISBN 978-0947766573, paperback ISBN 978-0947766580
  • 1999 ISBN 978-0947766504, paperback ISBN 978-0947766511
  • 1998 ISBN 978-0947766443, paperback ISBN 978-0947766450
  • 1997 ISBN 978-0947766382, paperback ISBN 978-0947766399
  • 1996 ISBN 978-0947766313, paperback ISBN 978-0947766320
  • 1995 ISBN 978-0947766245, paperback ISBN 978-0947766252
  • 1994 ISBN 978-0947766221, paperback ISBN 978-0947766238
  • 1993 ISBN 978-0947766207, paperback ISBN 978-0947766214
• Matthew Engel and Ian Morrison The Sportspages Almanac: Complete Sporting Factbook (Simon & Schuster Ltd)
  • 1992 ISBN 978-0671710804
  • 1991 ISBN 978-0671716004
  • 1990 ISBN 978-0671653149

External links

• Engel's website
• Column archive at The Financial Times
• Column archive at The Guardian
  The Guardian
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• Author profile at PanMacmillan
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• The Laurie Engel Fund official website