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British writer
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24 November 1958
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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.