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	Ridley Pearson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ridley Pearson is a novelist, writing mostly suspense and thrillers.
		Pearson was chosen by The Walt Disney Company and Great Ormond Street Hospital to co-author, with Dave Barry, the only official sequel to Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatchers.
		Pearson is currently being employed by Disney again to author a novel set inside the Magic Kingdom theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ridley_Pearson (191 words)

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		Pearson's mother was, at the time, an accomplished painter, as well as the organizer of local art shows and the local mini-Olympics, while his father became a freelance writer upon quitting his job of thirty-three years in public relations at Shell Oil (Profile 2).
		Pearson is such a workaholic, that when author Stephen King called on the Fourth of July one year, he said to Pearson, "I knew you'd be working on the fourth because I am, too." Pearson commented, "Nobody in their right mind would be working on the Fourth of July but me and Stephen" (Profile 2).
		Pearson feels it to be exhilarating, and one of the best parts about it for him is that he has to be so focused on what he is doing that he does not have the time to worry about anything else (Profile 2).
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/pearson_ridley_id.htm (2026 words)

	BookPage Interview September 2004: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
		Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson are already big names in the book world—Barry is the author of a truckload of best-selling humor titles (including his latest Boogers Are My Beat) and a mystery novel (Big Trouble), and Pearson is the creator of a string of well-regarded thrillers.
		Ridley: The beauty of collaboration is having someone with whom to solve problems as they come up.
		Ridley: The Wizard of Oz was the most fun with Paige because she was spellbound.
	www.bookpage.com /0409bp/dave_barry_ridley_pearson.html (672 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Ridley Pearson
		In 1991, Pearson became the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler Fulbright at Oxford University, where he researched and outlined both THE ANGEL MAKER (1993) and NO WITNESSES (1994).
		In this interview Ridley Pearson, author of THE BODY OF DAVID HAYES, talks about the characters and setting in his long-running mystery series featuring Seattle police lieutenant Lou Boldt.
		Ridley Pearson, popular author of the Lou Boldt thrillers, leads a busy life both in and outside of writing.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-pearson-ridley.asp (2303 words)

	Powell's Books - Parallel Lies by Ridley Pearson
		Ridley Pearson's latest novel brings together all his incomparable talents and more in a riveting story about a grieving man's mission to bring down the railroad company he blames for his wife and children's deaths — no matter who else dies in the process.
		Pearson's latest novel brings together all his incomparable talents and more in a riveting story about a grieving man's mission to bring down the railroad company he blames for his wife and children's deaths--no matter who else dies in the process.
		Ridley Pearson is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 novels, including Middle of Nowhere, The First Victim, The Pied Piper, Beyond Recognition, The Angel Maker, and Probable Cause.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0786865644-0 (392 words)

	Conducting Research with Ridley Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ridley Pearson, The New York Times best-selling author of 13 novels, says he is one of those "high energy, Type A people that needs to be busy." So, to keep himself busy, the author of the recently released suspense thriller Parallel Lies (Hyperion) takes on numerous projects to keep his mind occupied and "churning."
		Pearson considers the interview process to be one of the key elements in his plan of attack when conducting research, which, for him, is an ongoing process.
		Pearson says that interview subjects are more than willing to share information about themselves, but when an interviewer goes into the interview spouting his researched knowledge, he can turn off the subject immediately.
	www.writersdigest.com /articles/interview/pearson_conducting_research.asp (1059 words)

	Pomfret School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Pearson brothers said they founded the award because they were inspired by Pomfret’s successful Writers Studio, which is headed by faculty member Brad Davis.
		Ridley’s first published book, Never Look Back, went through twelve edits over eight and a half years: four on his own, four with his agent, and another four with the editor of the publishing house who purchased the manuscript.
		During the award presentation, Brad Pearson admitted that the idea of the award at Pomfret could prove to be a challenge — all three Pearsons who served as judges were blown away by the high quality of writing of all the finalists.
	www.pomfretschool.org /parents/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=134074 (434 words)

	Authors Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry dig up a pirates' plunder in their Peter Pan prequel.
		Two years ago, Ridley Pearson of St. Louis was reading the story of Peter Pan to his 5-year-old daughter, Paige, at bedtime.
		He and Pearson -- in San Francisco, now on book tour -- were having a drink in a nearby restaurant while waiting for their 7 p.m.
		The next book in what Pearson calls "a trilogy of sequels" is due out two years from now, with the next to follow a year later.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/23/DDGUQ8SFSI22.DTL&type=printable (1341 words)

	CNN - Chatpage - Books
		Ridley Pearson: I actually stay in Idaho but I write about Seattle, which is where I have loads of contacts in law enforcement.
		Ridley Pearson: I read a lot of John D. MacDonald novels and then a few early Folletts and I was hooked on the thriller.
		Ridley Pearson: When you work with police, you realize how terrific these people are, how much they give back to us as a society, and how we've screwed them up on screen.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/ridley_pearson.html (2735 words)

	No Witnesses - Ridley Pearson - Review - Sexual intrigue and dairy products... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ridley Pearson is an author who I have come to admire over time, as his style is well-placed and his work is very accessible to a wide range of readers.
		Pearson describes his work as suspense fiction, and No Witnesses, his most widely acclaimed novel, is a perfect example of this.
		Pearson's trademark detail in forensic and technological matters really adds a whole new level to the book too, and certainly convinces you this could have been a realistic situation (indeed, Pearson's past books have helped solve a number of actual American murder cases).
	www.ciao.co.uk /No_Witnesses_Ridley_Pearson__Review_5053250 (1350 words)

	The Art of Deception by Ridley Pearson - read excerpt
		Ridley Pearson raised in Riverside, Connecticut was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in detective fiction at Oxford University, and his novel No Witnesses was selected by the ALA as one the best fiction books of 1994.
		For eleven years, Pearson was on the road as a folk-rock musician and has been a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders along with Stephen King and Amy Tan.
		Pearson lives in Hailey, Idaho with his wife, Marcelle, and young daughter, Paige and their adopted daughter, Storey, from China.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/artofdeception.htm (1672 words)

	Booklist: Pearson, Ridley. The Art of Deception.
		Pearson’s last novel, Parallel Lies [BKL My 1 01], a stand-alone thriller about railroad terrorism, seemed a bit predictable, at least for a writer who is usually a master of unpredictability, but this time he’s back at the top of his game.
		Pearson has always excelled at interweaving human drama with the constantly building suspense of a murder investigation, and he does so again here.
		Pearson makes particularly good use of his Seattle setting this time; the legendary Underground (created when the city was rebuilt after its great fire of 1889) has often appeared in mysteries, but Pearson’s detail-rich treatment goes well beyond the typical clichés of dark passages and abandoned storefronts.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v98/je1/02pearson.html (253 words)

	Mystery Guide - Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This is one of the best plots in the subgenre, crackling with the inventive energy of a writer finding his ideal groove for the first time; but readers should be warned that it can require considerable active intelligence to follow through its surprising twists, sudden splits, and painstaking changes of direction.
		Pearson puts the geography and demography of Seattle to brilliant use, distilling clues from the exercise and dating habits of the city's youthful population, the psychology of a teenage witness, and the tidal flows of the Puget Sound.
		If Patricia Cornwell's specialty is the body, and Thomas Harris's is the mind, Ridley Pearson excels at the environment -- the physical and social world in which everything means something, every object and feature is a sign that can be read by a skilled observer.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkPearsonUndercurrents.html (508 words)

	Open wide for Peter Pan: Three-book prequel is coming
		Pearson, who recently moved to St. Louis after years in Sun Valley, Idaho, got together with his Miami counterpart to scope out the plot and assign primary responsibility for various characters.
		Pearson credits Barry with the "starstuff" idea, saying, "It was one of those dance-around-the-office days" when Barry came through with it.
		Meanwhile, Pearson and Barry are too busy touring to watch their advance copy of "Finding Neverland," a biopic of Barrie that's due out in November, with Johnny Depp in the lead role.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/190918_barry16.html (1747 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Parallel Lies by Ridley Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ridley Pearson structures a thriller within the railroad genre that recalls the nostalgic times when the railroad hobo came to life.
		He brings us to the current times of “rider camps” and takes yet another step forward when describing today’s incredible technology and the introduction of a high speed train system within the U.S. A freight train pulls into St. Louis and one of the boxcars is bloodied beyond the experience of most police.
		The plot is credible, the characters are convincing, the dialogue is consistent and the imagery is outstanding.
	www.themysteryreader.com /pearson-parallel.html (495 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The First Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Readers of Ridley Pearson's previous thrillers will be familiar with the adventures of Boldt, John LaMoia, Daphne Matthews, and others associated with the Seattle Police Department.
		Pearson, the winner of the first Raymond Chandler Fulbright fellowship at Oxford University, does not let down the pace in this intricately plotted suspense thriller that teams up Boldt with an uncomfortable mix of television news reporters and Immigration and Naturalization Service officers -- all with different agendas.
		Once again, Pearson combines violent action with careful attention to detail and fascinating glimpses of cutting-edge forensic science to craft a story that moves from the dark territory of dockside gangs and casual violence to the domain of corruption in high places and the murderous significance of "the first victim."
	www.bookpage.com /9907bp/fiction/the_first_victim.html (207 words)

	The First Victim: Ridley Pearson's Immigration Thriller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		American crime writer Ridley Pearson is known for his northwestern settings, topical themes and meticulous research.
		Ridley Pearson says he also became concerned over reports that a growing number of immigrants were being transported to the U.S. in shipping containers, and subjected to grave dangers in the process.
		Ridley Pearson also gets research help from the Seattle police and the University of Washington, and on one occasion, he returned the favor.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/firstvictim.html (400 words)

	Author's Summer Reading List - Ridley Pearson
		Ridley Pearson is a New York Times bestselling novelist.
		Pearson's previous novels have helped solve two real-life homicides, helped settle an environmental lawsuit and regularly tackle subjects that eerily become national news after he writes about them.
		Pearson divides his time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Hailey, Idaho, where he is at work on his next crime novel.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer02/pearson.asp (235 words)

	THE PIED PIPER by Ridley Pearson
		Ridley Pearson's popular series detective Lou Boldt is faced with the greatest dilemma of his life when his own daughter is kidnaped and he receives a terrifying ransom note --- a CD video of his daughter with the threat that if he doesn't impede the investigation, she will die.
		Pearson, not content to simply weave a page-turning story, fleshes out his characters and makes them come alive.
		The principle difference between Ridley Pearson's crime writing and others of this genre is a lack of blood and gore often associated with forensic thrillers.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0786889551.asp (433 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Dave Barry
		Ridley Pearson: I was reading Peter Pan to her, and she looked up into my eyes and said, "Yeah, Dad, but how did Peter Pan meet Captain Hook in the first place?"
		Ridley Pearson: There are just those five or six big questions that literally are asked in the first two pages of his piece.
		You get the Ridley Pearson fans or the Dave Barry fans, that's who comes, but then as more and more kids have been coming they don't know Ridley and they don't know me. They don't read reviews, they don't know about critics, and they don't know about bestseller lists.
	www.powells.com /authors/barry.html (3411 words)

	Cut and Run by Ridley Pearson
		While Ridley Pearson's Lou Boldt series seems to have run out of steam lately, his new stand-alone thriller shows this perennial best-selling author at the top of his form.
		maybe ridley pearson is going downhill or maybe he tried to churn out more than he could logically put together.
		Ridley Pearson has taken a break from his outstanding Lou Boldt series with a gut-wrenching thriller involving federal agents, organised crime and a chilling paid assassin who will stop at nothing and no-one to reach his target.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Cut-and-Run-0786867264.htm (1222 words)

	Powell's Books - Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson
		Pearson is able to effortlessly intertwine several detailed plot lines while still keeping his story firmly robed in reality."
		Pearson takes us to a very different place, but it is still a recognizably real place in which flesh-and-blood characters live lives that, at one pole at least, are quite like ours.
		In his new Detective Lou Boldt thriller, Pearson (The First Victim) whisks the reader on a lightning-paced chase through the grisly sights and sounds of Seattle's seedy underbelly.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=93-0786871490-0 (653 words)

	The Interview Section (Ridley Pearson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ridley Pearson: My publisher got wind of Rose Red, and Steve and ABC allowed me to read the script, with an eye toward a tie-in.
		Ridley Pearson: I put all sorts of jokes into the book to make Steve chuckle when he read it, and to mislead readers as to who wrote it.
		Ridley Pearson: If she arranges funding, it will be shot by Mary Kemper sometime early next year.
	www.liljas-library.com /ridleyint.html (1103 words)

	Ridley Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Raised in Riverside, Connecticut, Ridley Pearson graduated from Pomfret School and went to both Kansas and Brown Universities.
		But, as best-selling author Ridley Pearson's edge-of-the-seat thriller opens, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could.
		Ridley Pearson's latest novel brings together all his incomparable talents and more in a riveting story about a grieving man's mission to bring down the railroad company he blames for his wife and children's deaths-no matter who else dies in the process.
	www.bastulli.com /Pearson/Pearson.htm (2799 words)

	Body of David Hayes, Art of Deception, Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson - our reviews
		Pearson seemed back on his mark-- the dialogue was snappy and the events moved right along.
		Pearson's reputation is for writing fast-paced novels that evolve around the latest technology and current events.
		For eleven years, Pearson was on the road as a folk-rock musician and is a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, along with Stephen King and Amy Tan.
	mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/pearson.htm (3713 words)

	Review \| Parallel Lies by Ridley Pearson
		There's a high-speed bullet train at the center of Ridley Pearson's novel Parallel Lies and it's designed to propel first-class riders from Point A to Point B in record time without spilling a drop of champagne along the way.
		Pearson handles the English language like a grease-fingered thief grabbing the Mona Lisa.
		Pearson's imagination to the pen in his hand, apparently.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/parallelpearson.html (598 words)

	Dad's Book Gets Him Off the Hook (washingtonpost.com)
		Ridley Pearson didn't quite know how to answer the question, and he knew he couldn't look it up in a book.
		Pearson teamed with writer Dave Barry and the result, "Peter and the Starcatchers," was published this month.
		Pearson talked with Tracy Grant about writing for kids, his memories of Peter Pan and Paige's reaction to the answer he came up with.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6093-2004Sep8.html (663 words)

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