Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator. His novels include The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, and The Technologists and have been published in more than 40 countries. Pearl graduated from University School of Nova Southeastern University . He attended Harvard College and Yale Law School and has taught writing and literature at Emerson College and Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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 released in the United States on March 17, 2009.. His latest novel, The Technologists, was released in the United States on February 21, 2012. . Pearl has also written op-ed articles on literature and culture for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe.
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