{{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<br>Harvard College<br>Yale Law School |notable_works=''The Dante Club'' (2003)<br>''The Poe Shadow'' (2006)<br>''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.<ref name="LibraryThing 2020-04-20">{{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. }}</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>{{cite web |url=https://www.dantesociety.org/ |title=Home |website=dantesociety.org}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/855392747|title=The Poe shadow : a novel | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> His third novel, ''The Last Dickens'', was published in the United States in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1273590688|title=The last Dickens : a novel | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}}</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>{{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}}</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">{{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 }}</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>{{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}}</ref>
In 2025, Pearl published ''The Award'' through HarperCollins.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2025-09-15 |title=The Award |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matthew-pearl/the-award/ |access-date=2025-12-03 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.matthewpearl.com Official author site] *{{C-SPAN|132402}}
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