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.
Words Can Bleed. In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
...recent years. Admittedly, some have not been as absurd as Browns novel. In The Dante Club, for example, Matthew Pearl cleverly uses the poem as the hook on which to hang a grisly series of murders in mid 19th-century America, while the artist Joseph...
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...most country inns, these are books chosen to enlighten and amuse, maybe even inspire guests. Could I finish Matthew Pearl’s “The Last Dickens” in a three-night stay, I wondered. If not, surely they would let me borrow it on the promise of mailing...
...soccer referee and the dad of a star female player don't exactly see eye-to-eye. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Random House, fiction, reprint): In 1868 Boston, young MIT grads match wits with an anti-technology criminal who wants to destroy the...
...Sep 17, '12 Video / Sep 17, '12 Video / Aug 16, '12 Video / Jul 26, '12 Matthew Pearl, author of “The Dante Club” and “The Poe Shadow,” wove an engaging tale of Boston’s literary legacy — one significantly and curiously shaped by 19th century...
...years of age only remember the Disney film version, it is certainly time to actually read the original. Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is a compelling bibliomystery that imagines an answer to the question of how The Mystery of Edwin Drood might have...
...10. Harkness also says, “Those who like mystery thrillers with a Boston setting should try “The Technologists” by Matthew Pearl. •“Shadow of Night” by Deborah E. Harkness — Sharon Bernard, director of the Fitchburg Public Library, echoes...
...of the writing business. Keynote speaker this year is No. 1 New York Times and international best-selling author Matthew Pearl, who penned “The Dante Club,” “The Poe Shadow,” “The Last Dickens” and “The Technologists.” Former keynote...
...soccer referee and the dad of a star female player don't exactly see eye-to-eye. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Random House, fiction, reprint): In 1868 Boston, young MIT grads match wits with an anti-technology criminal who wants to destroy the...
...soccer referee and the dad of a star female player don’t exactly see eye-to-eye. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Random House, fiction, reprint): In 1868 Boston, young MIT grads match wits with an anti-technology criminal who wants to destroy the...
...soccer referee and the dad of a star female player don't exactly see eye-to-eye. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Random House, fiction, reprint): In 1868 Boston, young MIT grads match wits with an anti-technology criminal who wants to destroy the...
...Sep 17, '12 Video / Sep 17, '12 Video / Aug 16, '12 Video / Jul 26, '12 Matthew Pearl, author of “The Dante Club” and “The Poe Shadow,” wove an engaging tale of Boston’s literary legacy — one significantly and curiously shaped by 19th century...
...years of age only remember the Disney film version, it is certainly time to actually read the original. Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is a compelling bibliomystery that imagines an answer to the question of how The Mystery of Edwin Drood might have...