Harry Pearson (born 1961) is an English journalist and author, specializing in sport. His books include The Far Corner (shortlisted for the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year); A Tall Man in a Low Land and Achtung Schweinehund!. Harry has written for When Saturday Comes for twenty years and for many years was a weekly columnist for the Guardian.
His book Slipless in Settle won the 2011 Cricket Society / MCC Book of the Year award, the Cricket Writers’ Club Book of the Year award and was also named Best Cricket Book at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards. Harry’s biography of the West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, Connie, was longlisted for the 2017 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and won the 2018 Cricket Society / MCC Book of the Year.
His book about Flemish cycling, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, was longlisted for the 2019 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Harry’s latest book is a sequel to The Far Corner, published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster. The Farther Corner has also been longlisted for the William Hill award. His book, A Tall Man in a Low Land is the bestselling English language travelogue about Belgium.
Harry lives in the northeast of England.
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