Michael Pearson (author)
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). 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. Bibliography

Non-fiction books
 Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America. University Press of Mississippi, 1991. . Paperback Reprint: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Kindle Edition, Dzanc Books, 2014. A Place That’s Known: Essays. University Press of Mississippi, 1994. . Kindle Edition, Dzanc Books, 2014. John McPhee. Twayne Publishers, 1997. . Kindle Edition, Dzanc Books, 2014. Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx. Syracuse University Press, 1999. . Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea. Syracuse University Press, 2009. . Reading Life: On Books, Memory and Travel. Mercer University Press. 2015. . The Road to Dungannon: Journeys in Literary Ireland. McFarland and Company Publishers, 2023. . Novels
 Shohola Falls. Syracuse University Press, 2003. . References 

12. "Homeward Bound: A Review of THE ROAD TO DUNGANNON, October 2023,  https://veermag.com/2023/09/book-review-homeward-bound/

13. THE ROAD TO DUNGANNON, published July 27, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/Road-Dungannon-Journeys-Literary-Ireland/dp/1476691592/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VAB8GI8AG9NN&keywords=the+road+to+dungannon&qid=1678135979&s=books&sprefix=the+road+to+dungannon%2Cstripbooks%2C91&sr=1-1

14. List of people from the Bronx -- artists, actors, musicians, writers, politicians, and sports figures

External links
 Michael Pearson's website

1949 births
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Living people
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers