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Matthew Pearl

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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Telegraph, March 30, 2013
...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...
Dover Sherborn Patch, March 26, 2013
...A. Shapiro Cascade Maryanne O’Hara Defending Jacob William Landay The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller The Technologists Matthew Pearl Three Parts Dead Max Gladstone Non-fiction Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom Stephen R. Platt Brothers George Howe Colt...
BellaOnline, March 8, 2013
...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...
USA Today, January 2, 2013
...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...
Harvard University Gazette, September 28, 2012
...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...
Associated Content, August 31, 2012
...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...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, July 29, 2012
...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...
Middletown Press, January 10, 2013
...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...
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, January 3, 2013
...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...
ACQ Magazine, January 2, 2013
...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...
USA Today, January 2, 2013
...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...
Harvard University Gazette, September 28, 2012
...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...
ShortList.com, September 3, 2012
...bird. Serve immediately with the bread sauce, fried bread crumbs, game chips and gravy on the side. (Image: Matthew Pearl...
Associated Content, August 31, 2012
...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...