Matthew Richardson is an award-winning non-fiction author based in Quebec, Canada, focusing on natural history. He co-authored Lemurs of Madagascar (Conservation International, 2010) and the primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (Lynx Edicions, 2012). His most recent published book, Threatened and Recently-extinct Vertebrates of the World was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. It’s the first book to discuss all relevant IUCN Red List species and subspecies, and to arrange them by where they live in the world.