Matthew Pearl
Template:Short description Template:Notability Template:Infobox writer 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.
BiographyEdit
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.<ref name="LibraryThing 2020-04-20">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
BibliographyEdit
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His third novel, The Last Dickens, was published in the United States in 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Other works include The Professor's Assassin (2011), The Last Bookaneer (2015), Ginnifer (short story) (2016), and The Dante Chamber (2018)<ref name="FictionDB 2020-04-20">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>