Michael Pearson (author)

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Michael Pearson (born 1949) is an American author of five books - a novel, Shohola Falls (2003), and four works of non-fiction; Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America (a New York Times Notable Book of 1991), A Place That's Known: Essays (1994), John McPhee (1997) and Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999).

For a decade, from 1997 to 2006, he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Now, he teaches non-fiction writing and American literature there.

His new book Innocents Abroad Too, about two journeys around the world aboard ship, will be published in 2008.