Michael Pearson (writer, 1949)

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Michael Patrick Pearson (born June 18, 1949 ) is an American writer and university professor .

Life

After graduating with a bachelor's degree from the private Fordham University in New York , he studied at the University of San Francisco and graduated in 1972 with a master's degree . He then formed at the Pennsylvania State University continued and finished it in 1977 with the promotion to the doctor ( Ph.D. ). From 1997 to 2006 he led a training program for creative writing at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk in the state of Virginia . In 2002 and 2006 he took part in educational trips on a ship to Japan, China, Vietnam, India, Myanmar, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa and Cuba. From 2007 he has been working in this program at ODU, teaching travel writing, narrative nonfiction and American literature as a professor . He has published essays and short stories in The Boston Globe , The Baltimore Sun , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , The New York Times , The Washington Post , Southern Literary Journal , Shenandoah Review, and Creative Nonfiction .

Since 1991 he has authored six non-fiction books and the novel Shohola Falls . In 1997, the biography about John McPhee appeared . The book Imagined Places. Journeys into Literary America has been described as "a notable book" by The New York Times' Book Reviev .

Works

  • Imagined Places. Journeys into Literary America . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 1991.
  • A place that's known. Essays . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 1994.
  • John McPhee . Twayne Publishers, Woodbridge / Simon & Schuster, New York 1997.
  • Dreaming of Columbus. A Boyhood in the Bronx . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1999.
  • Shohola Falls . Novel. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2003.
  • Innocents Abroad Too. Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2008.
  • Reading Life. On Books, Memory, and Travel . Mercer University Press, Macon (Georgia) 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Innocents Abroad Too. Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea. Syracuse University Press, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Michael Pearson - Professor. Old Dominion University , accessed February 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Pearson - Biography. Michael Pearson, accessed February 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pearson, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pearson, Michael Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1949