Matthew Pearl (born October 2, 1975) is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

and educator. His novels include '' The Dante Club'', '' The Poe Shadow'', '' The Last Dickens'', '' The Technologists'', and '' The Last Bookaneer''.

Biography

Pearl was born in New York City and grew up in

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, where he graduated from the University School of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a

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school. He earned degrees from

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and

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. He currently resides in

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. 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.''

Bibliography

'' The Dante Club'' was published in 2003. His second novel, a historical thriller about the

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called ''The Poe Shadow'', was published by

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in the United States in 2007. His third novel, '' The Last Dickens'', was published in the United States in 2009. ''The Technologists'', a mystery alternative-history thriller set in the early years of the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, was published in the United States in 2012. Other works include ''The Professor's Assassin'' (2011), ''The Last Bookaneer'' (2015), ''Ginnifer'' (short story) (2016), and ''The Dante Chamber'' (2018) 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

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References

External links

Official author site
* 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Novelists from New York (state) Living people Harvard College alumni Yale University alumni Yale Law School alumni 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Massachusetts NSU University School alumni 1975 births {{US-novelist-1970s-stub