Matthew McGough
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Matthew McGough

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Matthew McGough is an author, journalist, and screenwriter. His non-fiction writing has been published in The Atlantic magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and more. As a teenager, Matt was a bat boy for two seasons with the New York Yankees. He attended Williams College and Fordham Law School, then served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge in New York City. In 2004, Doubleday published his memoir Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees. Matt’s spoken word performance about his first day with the Yankees was selected to lead off the pilot episode of The Moth Radio Hour. His book Bat Boy became the basis of CLUBHOUSE, a primetime TV series on CBS. Matt was then hired as a legal consultant and writer for NBC’s LAW & ORDER. Matt’s true crime account “The Lazarus File,” published in the June 2011 issue of The Atlantic, was named by Longform.org to its list of the Best Crime Writing of 2011, and also received two Los Angeles Press Club awards, for best magazine article in two categories: News Investigative and Feature Writing. His true crime book The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation was published by Henry Holt in April 2019. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children.
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