Matthew McIntosh
Matthew McIntosh (born 1977 in Federal Way, WA) is an American writer known for his 2003 novel "Well". His second novel, "theMystery.doc", was published in 2017. Biography. Early years. McIntosh is a native of Federal Way, Washington. He graduated from the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle after years of being enrolled on-and-off, during which time he held numerous menial jobs. He also attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. As a second-year workshop student, he won "Playboy" magazine's short story contest for university students for his  story "Fishboy." Section::::"Well". McIntosh's debut novel was published in 2003, when he was 26 years old. "Well" is a series of vignettes about the bleak existence of desperate characters living in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way, Washington. The book earned praise for its realistic characters, stark writing style and for being ambitious. It was both praised and criticized for its structure and unrelated storylines. Section::::"theMystery.doc". McIntosh's second novel, the 1,660-page "theMystery.doc", was published by Grove Atlantic on October 3, 2017. He began working on it shortly after "Well" was published in 2003. It tells the story  of an amnesiac writer trying to write an ambitious follow-up novel to a previous work. It contains many subplots, unusual page layouts, styles and fonts, as well as photos. "The Washington Post" called it "a supersize version of "Well"" and said that reading it "is like wandering through a gigantic art installation."