Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens and is 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. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Matthew Pearl é autor, entre outros, de "O Clube Dante" (The Dante Club) -- na lista dos mais vendidos do New York Times. Também é editor, republicando novas edições em inglês de grandes clássicos da literatura universal como O Inferno de Dante Alighieri e Os Assassinatos na Rua Morgue (coletânea dos casos do detetive-investigador C. Auguste Dupin de Edgar Allan Poe).