Imagined Places

Journeys into Literary America

Author: Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson writes about his travels to American places of literary import, including: William Faulkner's Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway's Key West; John Steinbeck's California; Mark Twain's Missouri; and Flannery O'Connor's Georgia.

Michael Pearson here writes about his travels to American places of literary import, including: William Faulkner's Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway's Key West; John Steinbeck's California; Mark Twain's Missouri; and Flannery O'Connor's Georgia.

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“Pearson recounts, in a series of charming informal essays, his experiences visiting six places with literary associations--Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri. . . . Pearson's descriptions and interviews are first-rate. . . . A pleasant read, full of rich anecdote and detail.”

An unusual mix of travel and autobiography in which [Pearson] reluctantly comes of age. . . . Imagined Places will stand with such distinguished surveys as The Experience of Place by Tony Hiss; Frederick Turner's Spirit of Place and Beyond Geography: A Writer's America by Alfred Kazin-- "New York Times Book Review"

About the Author

Michael Pearson teaches creative writing and American literature at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Creative Nonfiction, among many others. He is the author of six nonfiction books including Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx.