Matthew Pearl 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, as well as the author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber. His nonfiction writing has featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Slate, and his books have been translated into over thirty languages.