Michael Pearson (author)
Michael Patrick Pearson is an American author of six books — a novel, Shohola Falls, and five works of non-fiction; Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America, A Place That's Known: Essays, John McPhee, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea, and Reading Life: On Books, Memory and Travel.
For a decade, from 1997 to 2006, he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He currently teaches non-fiction writing and American literature at ODU.
