Joe Donahue speaks with Matthew Pearl 6-29

Albany, NY – Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. And with that interest in Poe, Pearl mixes history with fiction to detail the strange circumstances surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe in his novel: The Poe Shadow.

The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl.
Published by Random House.