Name Matthew Yorke Parents Emma Tennant | Role Novelist | |
Books The March Fence, Pictures of Lily, Chancing It Grandparents Elizabeth Lady Glenconner, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner Uncles Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner Similar People Alexander Cockburn, Emma Tennant, Christopher Booker, Claud Cockburn, Colin Tennant - 3rd Baron | ||
Matthew Yorke (born 24 November 1958) is a British novelist and editor.
Yorke is the son of novelist Emma Tennant and Sebastian Yorke, son of Henry Green; his parents later divorced in 1962. His early novel, The March Fence (1988), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, while Chancing It (2005) is a short novel for young adults. He has also edited Surviving: The Uncollected Works of Henry Green (his grandfather, whose real name was Henry Yorke). Pictures of Lily, another novel, was published in August 2010.
Yorke lives and works in London as a full-time writer.
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