Michael Pearson (author)

Michael Pearson
BornMichael Patrick Pearson
(1949-06-18) June 18, 1949
OccupationWriter
Alma materFordham University
University of San Francisco
Pennsylvania State University
Spouse
JoEllen Pearson
(m. 1971)
Website
michaelpatrickpearson.com

Michael Patrick Pearson (born June 18, 1949) 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 New York Times Notable Book of 1992), 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).