about Harry Pearson

Harry Pearson was born in 1961 in a village near Middlesborough. He was educated by kindly Quakers. An early attempt to become a journalist foundered because his spelling wasn't good enough. After many years working in jobs that required overalls or paper hats, his life was altered for ever by reading an article about Alan Foggan in the football magazine When Saturday Comes. Since then he has written six books, including The Far Corner and contributed to a dozen more. He has written for When Saturday Comes for twenty years and is a weekly columnist for the Guardian.

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