Matthew Pearl, author portrait
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Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Slate.
The Dante Chamber
The Last Bookaneer
The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin)
The Professor's Assassin (Short Story)
The Last Dickens
The Poe Shadow
The Dante Club

Books

The Dante Chamber
The Last Bookaneer
The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin)
The Professor's Assassin (Short Story)
The Last Dickens
The Poe Shadow
The Dante Club

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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