Matthew Biberman is a writer, scholar, and cultural historian whose work bridges the worlds of literature, biography, and political intrigue. An award-winning professor of English at the University of Louisville, he is the author of Big Sid’s Vincati, a critically acclaimed father-son memoir reviewed in many outlets, from The New York Times by Stanley Fish to the Louisville Courier Journal, The Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee, Motorcyclist, WKU PBS’s Mainstreet, Jay Leno’s Garage, and Discovery Channel’s Café Racer. He is also the director of the Louisville Conference on Literature, the most prestigious stand-alone literary conference in America, which recently hosted Ben Lerner, Jennifer Egan, and will welcome Rachel Kushner in February 2026. With a PhD from Duke University and a background in both Renaissance literature and Cold War culture, Biberman brings archival precision and narrative flair to his latest work, Russian Ikons, a groundbreaking biography of his great-granduncle Herbert Biberman. In unearthing the erased legacy of a man at the crossroads of American film, Soviet espionage, and radical art, Matthew Biberman reveals how power, politics, and creativity forged modern America.