Matthew Pearl
{{short description|American novelist and educator (born 1975)}}
{{notability|bio|date=April 2020}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Matthew Pearl
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1975|10|2}}
|birth_place=New York City, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Novelist
- educator
}}
|nationality=American
|alma_mater=NSU University School
Harvard College
Yale Law School
|notable_works=The Dante Club (2003)
The Poe Shadow (2006)
The Last Dickens (2009)
|website={{url|http://www.matthewpearl.com}}
}}
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.
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.librarything.com/author/pearlmatthew |title=Matthew Pearl |work=LibraryThing |accessdate=2020-04-20 |quote=Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator. }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.dantesociety.org/ |title=Home |website=dantesociety.org}}
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 in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/855392747|title=The Poe shadow : a novel | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}} His third novel, The Last Dickens, was published in the United States in 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1273590688|title=The last Dickens : a novel | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}}
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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/the-technologists-matthew-pearls-new-thriller.html |title=Matthew Pearl's New Thriller: The Technologists|work=The New York Times|date=February 26, 2012}}
Other works include The Professor's Assassin (2011), The Last Bookaneer (2015), Ginnifer (short story) (2016), and The Dante Chamber (2018){{cite web |url=https://www.fictiondb.com/author/matthew-pearl~36226.htm |title=Matthew Pearl |work=FictionDB |accessdate=2020-04-20 |quote=Book List: 8 titles }}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-taking-of-jemima-boone-matthew-pearl?variant=33051652325410 |title=The Taking of Jemima Boone by Matthew Pearl|accessdate=2022-01-06}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.matthewpearl.com Official author site]
- {{C-SPAN|132402}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:Novelists from New York (state)
Category:Harvard College alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Yale Law School alumni
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Novelists from Massachusetts
Category:NSU University School alumni
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