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Biography: Pearson, William Harrison

Links and sources

Websites

Landfall Archive

Read stories and articles by Bill Pearson, including his influential essay ‘Fretful sleepers’, in the literary magazine Landfall.

Bibliography

Millar, P. No fretful sleeper: a life of Bill Pearson. Auckland, 2010

Pearson, B. ‘Beginnings and endings.’ Sport 5, Spring 1990, pp. 3–21

Pearson, W.H. Coal Flat. Auckland and Hamilton, 1963

Pearson, W.H. Fretful sleepers and other essays. Auckland, 1974

Pearson, W.H. Six stories. Wellington, 1991

How to cite this page

Paul Millar. 'Pearson, William Harrison', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231820/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).