Patricia Pearson

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Patricia Pearson is a Canadian journalist: formerly a contributor to the National Post, she now writes for USA Today

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[edit] Biography

Pearson is the daughter of Canadian diplomat Geoffrey Pearson and former Ontario Senator Landon Pearson, and the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

She was educated at Netherwood School in Rothesay, New Brunswick, University of Trinity College, the University of Chicago, and Columbia School of Journalism in New York. She resigned her weekly column at the National Post in 2003 to protest that newspaper's support for the Bush administration in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Pearson's subsequent satirical writing has been hailed as "hysterically funny" by the Los Angeles Times.

Pearson has lived in New York, Delhi and Moscow, and now resides in Toronto, Ontario with her husband and children.

[edit] Awards

She has won numerous awards for her writing including:

  • National Magazine Awards
  • National Author's Award
  • Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime (1997)
  • Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, finalist (2003)

[edit] Books

  • A Brief History of Anxiety - Yours and Mine (2008) Bloomsbury USA, New York
  • When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder (1998) Viking USA, Virago UK, Random House Canada
  • Playing House
  • Area Woman Blows Gasket
  • Believe Me

[edit] External links

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