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Red Sparrow Author Jason Matthews Dead at 69 from Rare Neurodegenerative Disease: A Sad Loss People 4/29/2021
Jason Matthews, the award-winning writer of the
Red Sparrow series, has died at the age of 69.
The author died on Wednesday after from corticobasal degeneration, a rare and untreatable disease that affects the brain and causes cells to degenerate over time, according to his publisher Scribner said. How a bestselling, critically-acclaimed spy novelist sprung from the head of a quiet CIA operations officer appeared to be a great mystery, Colin Harrison, Matthews editor at Scribner, said in a statement provided to PEOPLE. But when you learned Jason Matthews spoke six languages, had read widely for decades, was an astute observer of human behavior, and was adept at composing long classified narratives, it all made sense. His books were not only sophisticated masterpieces of plot and spy craft, but investigations into human nature, especially desire in all its forms