University School Alumnus, Author of Best Selling Book

Mr. Pearl is the noted author of many published books and papers, including The Dante Club, published by Random House in 2003.

The Dante Club was ranked as a New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Boston Globe Bestseller, was one of Neilsen’s top 100 bestselling books of 2004, and has been nominated for awards around the world, including Harvard University’s “Certificate of Distinction in Teaching” for “Dante’s Divine Comedy and its World,” in 2001 and 2003 and for “Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood,” in 2002. The Dante Club was also honored as one of 2003’s “25 Books to Remember” by the New York Public Library and was voted one of the Best Books of 2003 by US News & World Report.

A graduate of Yale Law School and a Summa Cum Laude graduate from Harvard University, Mr. Pearl first became excited about reading and literature while attending the English classes of teachers Robert Parson and Linda Winrow at the University School. His second grade teacher from University School was one of the first to recognize Mr. Pearl’s talents for creative story telling.

He has conducted numerous speaking tours about the novel and writing in general in more than 40 cities and five foreign countries. His new novel, The Poe Shadow, is expected in 2005.