Matthew Pearl

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Matthew Pearl (born October 2, 1975) is an American novelist and educator. His novels include The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, , and .

Biography[]

Pearl was born in New York City and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he graduated from the University School of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a K-12 school. He earned degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1]

Bibliography[]

The Dante Club was published in 2003. His second novel, a historical thriller about the death of Edgar Allan Poe called The Poe Shadow, was published by Random House in the United States on May 23, 2006, and was a New York Times bestseller. His third novel, The Last Dickens, was published in the United States on March 17, 2009.^{[citation needed]}

The Technologists, a mystery alternative-history thriller set in the early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was published in the United States in 2012.^[2]

Other works include The Professor's Assassin (2011), (2015), Ginnifer (short story) (2016), and (2018)^[3]

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External links[]

• Official author site

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