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Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. The Dante Club has been published in more than thirty languages and forty countries around the world. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He can be reached via his website, www.matthewpearl.com.

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Cleveland Live, May 15, 2012
...helped, narrator Marno is a delight, easily managing various accents, voices, languages and cadences. Grade: B The Technologists Matthew Pearl; read by Stephen Hoye Set in 1868 Boston, around M.I.T.'s first graduating class, this thriller attempts to...
Boston Globe, May 3, 2012
...Atkinson ("Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord Matthew Pearl (The Technologists) speaks at 4 p.m., at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset MONDAY: Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés...
Richmond.com, April 30, 2012
...Flight of Gemma Hardy." Rounding out the panel are Alice Medrich, author of "Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts"; Matthew Pearl, author of "The Technologists" and Sally Bedell Smith, author of "Elizabeth The Queen."...
Advertiser Democrat, April 21, 2012
..."Oath of Office," Michael Palmer; "Private Games," James Patterson; "The Expats," Chris Pavone; "The Technologists," Matthew Pearl; "Lone Wolf," Jodi Picoult; "Celebrity in Death," J.D. Robb; "Before the Poison," Peter Robinson; "The House I Loved,"...
TheDay.com, April 5, 2012
...What is it with these Ivy League guys and their historical thrillers? Matthew Pearl (Harvard undergrad/Yale law) rewrote the script for such things with novels like "The Dante Club," "The Poe Shadow" and "The Last Dickens." Now, Dartmouth grad Keiran...
What They Think, March 23, 2012
...Rule Britannica? By Richard Romano on March 22nd, 2012 Earlier this week, over at , Mr. Tree (if that is his name, although I am always reminded of Monty Python’s “” talk show) poses the question, “Which are better, printed magazines or digital...
Boston Globe, March 22, 2012
...Brookline Booksmith Tea Obrecht (The Tigers Wife) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston College, Devlin Hall 101 Matthew Pearl (The Technologists) reads at 7 p.m. at the Rabb Lecture Hall at Boston Public Library, Copley Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow (The...
Book Reporter, March 3, 2012
...as a character, but she’s definitely one of the more notable ones. I became a fan of Matthew Pearl with THE DANTE CLUB, as I enjoyed the way he married technology and fear. Fans of his earlier works will find THE TECHNOLOGISTS an enjoyable read as...
Washington Post, March 1, 2012
...scene of Matthew Pearls latest novel, The Technologists. Personal Post ( Random House ) - ”The Technologists: A Novel” by Matthew Pearl Pearl is the author of the best-selling historical mysteries The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens,...
seattlepi.com, February 28, 2012
...Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 04:56 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, 2012 The harsh social norms of the...
Blogcritics.org, February 28, 2012
...The Technologists by Matthew Pearl is a novel about the early days of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The story takes place in the years after the , during a very fragile time in...
Back Bay Patch, February 28, 2012
...Share Tweet Boston Public Library - Central Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA | Get Directions » FREE Matthew Pearl is the author of the novels The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens. His newest work, The Technologists, was...
Web Newswire, February 28, 2012
...University. Tuesday, March 27, 6 p.m., Honan-Allston Branch, 300 North Harvard Street, Allston, 617.787.6313. •Author Matthew Pearl will speak on The Old Corner: How a Modest Bookstore Defined a Boston Literary Epoch. Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m. Rabb...
Scientific American, February 26, 2012
...who show curiosity and creative thought, even though creativity is held as an important goal of education. As Matthew Pearl reminds us in his new historical thriller, The Technologists (out this week), this general distrust of innovation is nothing new....