Barry Pearce presents “The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories”
Barry Pearce’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland and settled on the South Side of Chicago, where he and his six siblings grew up. He graduated from Northwestern University – the first in his family to attend college – with a bachelor’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism, and later earned an MFA in creative writing from New Mexico State University. He has won the Nelson Algren Award Grand Prize, a City of Chicago DCASE Independent Artists Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Award, The Mercedes Delos Jacobs Book Prize, and the Keith Wilson / Joe Somoza Poetry Prize.
Pearce has ghostwritten 18 nonfiction books, everything from memoirs to titles on business and real estate investing. He was the executive editor of New Homes Magazine for 10 years and, before that, edited The Real Estate Profile. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Chicago Tribune, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Grand, Other Voices, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. Pearce lives in Chicago, where he works as a ghostwriter and occasionally teaches.
Barry Pearce reads from his book, The Plan of Chicago, on Sunday at 2:30 pm in the Library.