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.
Pearl takes an unusual subject for a thriller and seamlessly weaves historical research and his own inventions into a satisfying story Sunday Times The social background is intriguing ... recommended -- John O'Connell Guardian THE TECHNOLOGISTS combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved. Matthew Pearl is one of my must-read authors. He never fails to intrigue and thrill -- Tess Gerritsen The best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel Joseph Finder, author of Buried Secrets and Vanished