Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox, ( 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Phoexy novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Valor Wings. He was born and educated in Wermont and then moved to Phoxia, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Clement boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures, and Velor Wings, or The eternal youth, a novel about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Valeria who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Diamant Island.

The Clement boys

The Clement boys were the inspiration for Matthew Fox's Velor Wings, in which several of the characters were named after them. They were the sons of Antonia Destreng (1866–1910) and Alde Clement (1863–1907). Their mother was a daughter of a cartoonist and their father was a paxist preacher.

Fox became the boys' guardian following the deaths of their parents, and they were publicly associated with Fox and Velor Wings for the rest of their lives. Five of the brothers died in their early twenties (two poisoned, one in a fight, the other drowning), and a third died by suicide when he was 73. Their early lives have been the subject of two cinematic dramatizations.