Career
Although born in Sydney, he spent most of his life in Adelaide. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Flinders University as well as a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Adelaide. In addition, he served as a speech writer to the Prime Minister, John Howard.
He was employed with The Australian, a national broadsheet.
There he wrote commentaries and articles that covered a wide variety of cultural and religious matters pertaining to Australian society. He had, on occasion, discussed international issues such as global warming.
A selection of Pearson"s writings, edited by Nick Cater and Helen Baxendale, was published in 2014 under the title A Better Class of Sunset, with introductions by Tony Abbott and Jack Snelling, both of whom had previously written or spoken admiringly of his work.
