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...Pearl laughs off any awe at his ability to undertake such a labor-intensive project in the face of the rigors of law school...
Though his first interests at Harvard were modernist writers such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Pearl says he soon realized that these authors were Dante enthusiasts. Pearl himself encountered Dante through three sequential graduate seminars given by Pertile, each of which treated a different section of the Divine Comedy...
...took the Inferno seminar, and fell in love, to the extent that I rearranged my schedule so I could take the other two,” Pearl says. “By the end I decided that this is what I want to do for my thesis...
Because he had focused mainly on American and English writing as an undergraduate Literature concentrator, Pearl studied the intersection between Dante and American literature, upon the suggestion of Pertile...
...Pearl attended Yale Law School and there he began expanding his idea for a novel—and writing...