Matthew Sturgis

 ( Living People ) 

The Independent called his 1998 Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography "impressively researched".

Reviewing Walter Sickert: A Life, Sickert scholar Richard Shone concluded, "At last Sickert has the biography he deserves". Shone, Richard, "The painter properly portrayed", The Spectator, 12 February 2005 Another reviewer found Sturgis "marvelous in capturing the sparkling eccentricities of his subject along with the changing fads and fashions to which Sickert was throughout his long life so sensitive". Fox, Paul, untitled review in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Fall 2005), pp. 152-155

Reviewing Oscar Wilde: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable." The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years earlier.

• 1992 and All This, Macmillan, 1991
• Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995
• Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, 1998
• 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family with Mark McCrum, Macmillan, London, 1999.
• Walter Sickert: A Life, 2005
• Oscar: A Life, Head of Zeus, 2018. Published in the U.S. as Oscar Wilde: A Life, Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.