Patricia Pearson
Location:
Toronto, ON
Styles:
Advertorials, Broadcast: Audio, Columns, Corporate Communications, Essays, Ghostwriting, Humour, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Promotional copy, Proposals, Reports/Whitepapers, Scriptwriting, Speechwriting
Subjects:
Adventure, Arts, Books & literature, Culture & community, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Government, Health & medicine, Life sciences, Non-profit, Pharmaceuticals, Publishing, Seniors & retirement, Travel & tourism, Wilderness & wildlife, Women
Bio:
A versatile writer across media and styles, Pearson is particularly well-known for her comic flair. She has been called “highly amusing” by the New York Times, and been compared to Dorothy Parker and Mark Twain. Clients have tapped her for speeches, screenplays and articles that require a comedic touch. As a serious journalist, Pearson specializes in health and social issues, and with a graduatelevel background in history, clients have hired her for corporate and personal biographies.
Publications/Client List:
- Best Health magazine
- More (US)
- Readerʼs Digest
- Toronto Life
- Business Week
- The Globe and Mail
- Toronto Star
- New York Times
- National Post
- Guardian (UK)
- Daily Telegraph (UK)
- CBC TV
- History Channel (US)
- TVO
- Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs (corporate history)
- Dr. Olga Rogers (private biography)
Books:
- Brief History of Anxiety…Yours and Mine
- When She was Bad: How and Why Women get away with Murder
- Playing House
- Believe Me
- Area Woman Blows Gasket
- Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour
Other Projects:
- Invited speeches and media appearances on the subject of mental health
- Brief History of Anxiety: a documentary in production for the CBC
Awards:
- Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour – finalist
- North American Travel Journalists Association award – winner
- Arthur Ellis Award for True Crime – winner
- National Magazine awards – three-time winner

