Matthew Richardson (author)

Matthew Richardson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario on January 16, 1966, but was raised in the town of Markham, north of Toronto. His early unpublished works include a biography of Gerald Durrell and the massive, four-volume "Living Primates" series that would later be adapted into other works. In 2001 he published The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William. For much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist / taxonomist for the U.S.-based NGO Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar (book) and the primate volume (volume 3) to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (for which he also produced all the maps). He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, helped to catalog the Royal Ontario Museum's primatology collection, gave lectures, and has served as an active member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group (past), and the IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Group (current).

He is currently working on "Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates of the World: A Biogeographic Approach" (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Matthew is single and lives near the town of La Conception, in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.

• The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William (Dundurn Group, 2001).[1]
• Lemurs of Madagascar Pocket Identification Guide – Diurnal and Cathemeral Lemurs, Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, William R. Konstant, Olivier Langrand, Frank Hawkins, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Jörg Ganzhorn, Serge Rajaobelina and Christophe Schwitzer
• Lemurs of Madagascar Pocket Identification Guide – Nocturnal Lemurs, Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, William R. Konstant, Olivier Langrand, Frank Hawkins, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Jörg Ganzhorn, Serge Rajaobelina and Christophe Schwitzer
• Lemurs of Madagascar (book), Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, Christophe Schwitzer, Olivier Langrand, Anthony B. Rylands, Frank Hawkins, Serge Rajaobelina, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Christian Roos, Peter M. Kappeler, and James MacKinnon, Conservation International, 2010.
• Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins [Colin Groves](author of Foreword)
• Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume Three (Primates) (Lynx Edicions, 2012).

• Conservation International Website
• http://www.primate-sg.org/