Mathew Pearl

Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum
laude in English and American Literature in 1997, and in
2000 from Yale Law School, where he wrote the first draft of
The Dante Club. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize
from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He
is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of
Dante’s Inferno, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.