If you're on Windows, you can use the COM client support to do it. You can make use of the BuiltinDocumentProperties of the Workbook object (VBA).
% Connect to Excel
Excel = actxserver('excel.application');
% Get Workbook object
WB = Excel.Workbooks.Open(fullfile(pwd, 'Book1.xlsx'),0,true);
% Get Document Properties
x = WB.BuiltinDocumentProperties;
% Get Author
y = get(x, 'Item', 'Author');
author = get(y, 'Value')
% Get Creation Date
y = get(x, 'Item', 'Creation Date');
date_created = get(y, 'Value')
% Get Last Save Time
y = get(x, 'Item', 'Last Save Time');
date_modified = get(y, 'Value')
% Close Workbook
WB.Close();
% Quit Excel
Excel.Quit();
