Michael Pearson

American writer

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Also known as Michael Patrick Pearson · M.P. Pearson

Born: June 18, 1949
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: novelist
, non-fiction writer
, university teacher
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Education: Fordham University
, University of San Francisco(until 1972)
, Pennsylvania State University(until 1977)
Employer: Old Dominion University(since 1997)
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1.odu.edu/directory/people/m/mpearsonRetrieved 2018-02-27
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Languages spoken, written or signed: American English
, English
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Notable work: Shohola Falls

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Michael Patrick Pearson is an American author of hundreds of essays and eight books – a novel, Shohola Falls (2003), and seven works of non-fiction; Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America, A Place That's Known: Essays (1994), John McPhee (1997), Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999), Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea (2008), Reading Life: On Books, Memory and Travel (2015), The Road to Dungannon: Journeys in Literary Ireland (2023). His new nonfiction book—The Road to Croagh Patrick: One Writer's Literary and Spiritual Pilgrimages—will come out from McFarland and Company in 2026.

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