Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. 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.

"A plot packed full of incident, coincidences, devious twists and dramatic set pieces" Daily Mail "A Dickens of a mystery" New York Daily News "An immensely gifted author" Dan Brown "Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is a tour-de-force ... which grips the reader from harrowing start to tantalizing finish" Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder "An illuminating peep into a vanished world" -- James Urquhart Financial Times

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. 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.

"A plot packed full of incident, coincidences, devious twists and dramatic set pieces" Daily Mail "A Dickens of a mystery" New York Daily News "An immensely gifted author" Dan Brown "Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is a tour-de-force ... which grips the reader from harrowing start to tantalizing finish" Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder "An illuminating peep into a vanished world" -- James Urquhart Financial Times