Michael Patrick Pearson, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-4-2023
Location
University Theatre
Author/Artist Bio
Michael Patrick Pearson, for many years a professor of creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University, has published essays and reviews in The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Literary Journal, Shenandoah Review, Chautauqua, The Morning News, Creative Nonfiction, The New York Journal of Books, and others. He is the author of many books – among them Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America (1991 –a NYT Notable Book), Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999),Innocents Abroad Too (2008 -- a narrative about two journeys around the world by ship), Reading Life -- On Books, Memory, and Travel (2015), and Shohola Falls (2003 -- a coming-of-age novel that imagines the hidden life of Mark Twain and the journal of Thomas Blankenship (the real-life Huck Finn). His new book, The Road to Dungannon (2023), is a narrative about his maternal grandfather, Irish history and literature, and the writer's travels around the island. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper's, said, "Michael Pearson is one of our nation's finest memoirists."
Description
The reading took place on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 12 p.m. in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University.
Recommended Citation
Pearson, Michael Patrick, "Michael Patrick Pearson, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2023). 46th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 1-5, 2023. 9.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2023/9