Imagined Places - Journeys Into Literary America

Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Pearson
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780815606604
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0660-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic