Title: Dreaming of Columbus
First published: 1999
Description: A moving memoir, Dreaming of Columbus illuminates place as a force that shapes lives. With recollection and reportage, Michael Pearson re-creates the Bronx of the 1950s and 60s, the place of his youth, that "precisely known world, safe and claustrophobic," an Irish Catholic culture filled with light and shadows.

The driving force behind Pearson's story is its people - an enigmatic father, a steadfast mother, an eccentric and influential writing teacher, the boys and girls who shared his neighborhood, the high school girl who shared his vision and his life - and the books that made escape and return seem possible.
Subjects: Biography, Childhood and youth, Irish Americans, Social life and customs, New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), State & Local, General, Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, Bronx (new york, n.y.), New york (n.y.), biography, New york (n.y.), social life and customs
Places: Bronx (New York, N.Y.), N.Y.) Bronx (New York, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
People: Michael Pearson (1949-)
LC classification: F128.68.B8 P33 1999