The course was a study abroad course in Creative Writing in Ireland. Students used The New York Times as a resource for articles on Ireland in the broadest sense — history,…
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MenuMichael Pearson teaches creative writing and American literature at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun,
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Literary Journal, Shenandoah Review, Chautauqua, The Morning News, Creative Nonfiction, and many others. He is the author of seven books – among them Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America (1991 — listed as a notable book by The New York Times Book Review), Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999), Innocents Abroad Too (2008 — a narrative about two journeys around the world by ship), and, most recently, Reading Life — On Books, Memory, and Travel (2015). Pearson has also written 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). Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper’s, said, “Michael Pearson is one of our nation’s finest memoirists.”