Patricia Pearson

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Patricia Pearson is a Canadian journalist. She is the daughter of diplomat Geoffrey Pearson and former Senator Landon Pearson, and the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

Pearson was a contributor to the National Post and now writes for USA Today. She has won numerous awards for her writing including:

• National Magazine Awards
• National Author's Award
• Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime (1997)
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, finalist (2003)

She is the author of the books When She Was Bad," "Playing House," "Area Woman Blows Gasket" and "Believe Me.

Pearson, who lived in New York, Dehli and Moscow, now resides in Toronto, Ontario. She was educated at Netherwood School in Rothesay, New Brunswick, Trinity College, University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and Columbia School of Journalism in New York. She resigned her weekly column at the National Post in 2003 to protest that newspaper's support for the Bush administration in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Pearson's subsequent satirical writing has been hailed as "hysterically funny" by the Los Angeles Times, and "the best comic writing in a decade," by Dose Weekly. She has been compared to "a Dorothy Parker crossed with David Sedaris," by Flare magazine, and to Mark Twain by the Canadian newsweekly Maclean's.

--Books--

When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder (1998) Viking USA, Virago UK, Random House Canada

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• Patricia Pearson's Post
• macleans.com
• randomhouse.com
• bloomsbury.com
• usatoday.com