Matthew Engel

Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951 in Northampton) is a British writer and editor who began his career in 1972. He worked on The Guardian 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 later wrote columns in the Financial Times and now writes for both these papers. Engel edited the 1993–2000 and 2004–2007 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, with a short break when he worked in the US. He has been a strong critic of the International Cricket Council, international cricket's ruling body.
Engel was the Visiting Professor of Media at the University of Oxford for 2011.
Engel is an alumnus of Carmel College, Oxfordshire, and Manchester University. He lives in Herefordshire 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 £1.2m in partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust to build a new unit for patients in Birmingham (opened 2010) and for a cancer centre scheduled for 2018. The proceeds of a book he wrote, Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan), are donated to this fund. His latest book, Engel's England, was published in 2014. He is now writing a book on American influences on the English language, due to be published in 2017.

• Matthew Engel "Engel's England: thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man" (Profile Books, 2014) ISN 978-1-84668-571-2
• Matthew Engel Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (Macmillan, May 2009) ISBN 978-0-230-70898-3
• Matthew Engel Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan, 2007) ISBN 978-0-330-44954-0 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 978-0-575-06143-9, paperback (Phoenix, 1997) ISBN 978-0-575-40083-2
• Matthew Engel (editor) Thirty Obituaries from Wisden (Penguin Books Ltd, 1996) ISBN 978-0-14-600248-9
• Matthew Engel and Andrew Radd The History of Northamptonshire CCC (County Cricket History) (Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, 1993) ISBN 978-0-7136-8024-9
• Matthew Engel Sports writer's eye: an anthology (Queen Anne Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-356-17844-8
• Matthew Engel The Guardian Book of Cricket (Pavilion Books, 1986) ISBN 978-1-85145-060-2 (Penguin Books, 1987) ISBN 978-0-14-010445-5
• Matthew Engel Ashes '85 Pelham Books, 1985) ISBN 978-0-7207-1645-0
• Matthew Engel (editor) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (John Wisden & Co Ltd)
  • 2007 ISBN 978-1-905625-02-4, paperback ISBN 978-1-905625-03-1, large print ISBN 978-1-905625-05-5
  • 2006 ISBN 978-0-947766-98-6, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-99-3
  • 2005 ISBN 978-0-947766-89-4, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-90-0
  • 2004 ISBN 978-0-947766-83-2, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-84-9, audio ISBN 978-1-84032-857-8
  • 2000/The Millennium Edition ISBN 978-0-947766-57-3, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-58-0
  • 1999 ISBN 978-0-947766-50-4, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-51-1
  • 1998 ISBN 978-0-947766-44-3, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-45-0
  • 1997 ISBN 978-0-947766-38-2, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-39-9
  • 1996 ISBN 978-0-947766-31-3, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-32-0
  • 1995 ISBN 978-0-947766-24-5, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-25-2
  • 1994 ISBN 978-0-947766-22-1, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-23-8
  • 1993 ISBN 978-0-947766-20-7, paperback ISBN 978-0-947766-21-4
• Matthew Engel and Ian Morrison The Sportspages Almanac: Complete Sporting Factbook (Simon & Schuster Ltd)
  • 1992 ISBN 978-0-671-71080-4
  • 1991 ISBN 978-0-671-71600-4
  • 1990 ISBN 978-0-671-65314-9