Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murder in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. The Dante Club has been published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other novels include The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists and The Last Bookaneer – all of which stage fascinating real-life historical figures in brilliant crime narratives that earn loyal readers worldwide.
Matthew’s novel is The Dante Chamber, is the follow-up to The Dante Club, set five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti enlists poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, along with famous scholar Dr. Oliver Wendell Homes, to investigate. The Dante Chamber is a riveting adventure across London, and through the pages of iconic literature. His non-fiction book, The Taking of Jemima Boone, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College.
“A deliciously intricate and utterly absorbing retelling of the Daniel Boone family saga–—and particularly the complex roles played by the Cherokee and Shawnee across Boone’s southern Appalachian stamping grounds. The Taking of Jemima Boone adds an intriguing dimension to an issue of keen importance to modern society.” — New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester
