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unusual facts about Matthew Pearl


James Thomas Fields

Fields, along with Longfellow, is featured in the first and third of Matthew Pearl's novels, The Dante Club (2003) and The Last Dickens (2009).


Davy Jones' Locker

In his novel The Last Dickens, Matthew Pearl makes the Captain of the Samaria transatlantic liner assume that Herman the Parsee might be sleeping soundly in Davy Jones's locker, namely that he has almost certainly perished in the depths. Use of seamen jargon chimes with the dickensian topic and environment of the novel.

The Moses Expedition

Being a household name in Europe but not yet in the United States, a group of New York Times bestselling authors such as Brad Thor, Matthew Pearl, Javier Sierra, Stephen Coonts, Steve Berry and Katherine Neville among others backed The Moses Expedition with quotes.


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The Unicorn Writers' Conference

Guest Speaker have included Gene Wilder, Jodee Blanco and Carol Higgins Clark, Sandra Brown, Patricia Schultz, and Matthew Pearl.