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

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; ''Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America'' (a

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Notable Book of 1992), ''A Place That's Known: Essays'' (1994), ''

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'' (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). For a decade, from 1997 to 2006, he directed the MFA Program in

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in Norfolk, Virginia. He currently teaches non-fiction writing and American literature at ODU.

Bibliography

Non-fiction books

* ''Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America''. Henry Holt. 1992. . Reprint: University of Georgia Press. 1996. * ''A Place That’s Known: Essays''. University of Georgia Press. 1994. . * ''John McPhee''.

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. 1997. . * ''Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx''.

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. 1999. . * ''Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea''.

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. 2008. . * ''Reading Life: On Books, Memory and Travel''.

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. 2015. . * ''The Road to Dungannon: Journeys in Literary Ireland''. Mercer University Press. 2023. .

Novels

* ''Shohola Falls''.

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. 2003. .

References

External links

Michael Pearson's website
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