A promising young author speaks at Bowdoin...fyi...
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Matthew Pearl to Speak at This Week's Common Hour
Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, will speak at this week's
Common Hour, Friday, November 19, at 12:30 p.m., in Kresge Auditorium,
Visual Arts Center.
Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and
American literature in 1997. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante
Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work.
His first novel, The Dante Club, a New York Times bestseller, is being
translated into over a dozen languages around the world. He wrote the
first draft while attending Yale Law School, where he received his
J.D. in 2000.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution groups Pearl with Jonathan Franzen,
Manil Suri, Jonathan Foer and Richard Powers as having added to "the
growing genre of novel being written nowadays - the learned,
challenging kind that does not condescend." The Library Journal says,
"Pearl has given himself a master." Details magazine names Pearl as
one of 2003's "Next Big Things" and Boston Magazine places him on
their annual "Hot List."
Pearl grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, serving as a teaching fellow for Harvard literature
courses and a tutor for students interested in creative writing.
He is now working on another 19th-century thriller with its roots in
an exciting moment of literary history.
Common Hour is open to all Bowdoin students, faculty and staff.
This is the final Common Hour of the semester. The next Common Hour
will be held Friday, January 28. |
