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| Born | October 2, 1975 New York City, U.S. |
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| Notable works | The Dante Club (2003) The Poe Shadow (2006) The Last Dickens (2009) |
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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 , The Technologists , and The Last Bookaneer .
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] In 1998, Pearl won the Dante Award from the Dante Society of America for his undergraduate essay, Dante in Transit: Emerson’s Lost Role as Dantean. [2]
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 in 2007. [3] His third novel, The Last Dickens , was published in the United States in 2009. [4]
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. [5]
Other works include The Professor's Assassin (2011), The Last Bookaneer (2015), Ginnifer (short story) (2016), and The Dante Chamber (2018) [6]
In 2021, Pearl published his first nonfiction book The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America, published by HarperCollins. [7]
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Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator.
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