I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book. -Matthew Pearl Birthday
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin. -Matthew Pearl Teacher
When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian. -Matthew Pearl Christmas
