![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "It was a great time to grow up there, because towns in that ring between 128 and 495, their agricultural economy had fallen through in the 1950s, which meant that the whole town was very forested in a way that it has not been since the 18th century, and which it probably never will be again," he said. "These apartments are really great, they go back to the 1930s, they were really nicely done," Anderson said as he welcomed me in.Īnderson has an incessant awareness of history - one that informs his deep affection for Boston, Cambridge and the town of Stow, where he was raised. Despite having traveled the world, today he lives just a few blocks away, on the fourth floor of a beautiful brick building north of Harvard Square. Matthew Tobin Anderson - Tobin to his friends - was born in 1968 at Mount Auburn Hospital. Anderson's story is Part 4 in our series, "Visionaries."ĬAMBRIDGE, Mass. The first of his two-volume novel, "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing," set in Revolutionary-era Boston, won a National Book Award in 2006. Anderson has been crafting smart, often dark books for teens that have drawn adult readers. Since the late 1990s, Cambridge author M.T. Anderson at his writing desk (Adam Ragusea/WBUR) Facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old. ![]()
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