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Author. Screenwriter. Playwright. Historian. Genealogist. Bon vivant boulevardier. Newspaper columnist. To browse the several hundred books Perry Deane Young has for sale on Amazon.com, go to: http://www.amazon.com/shops/woodfinson Interact with Perry on his blog: http://perryyoung.blogspot.com 
Perry Young’s first book was the widely praised Two of the Missing, a Vietnam memoir published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan hardback and Avon paperback. The David Kopay Story, which Young wrote with the gay pro football player, was published in 1977 by Arbor Hours hardback and Bantam paperback. The David Kopay Story was on the New York Times Bestseller list for nine weeks and was named one of the ten Best Books for Young Adults of 1977 by the American Library Association. 
God’s Bullies, Native Reflections on Preachers and Politics was published in 1982 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. A Killing Cure was published in 1985 by Henry Holt & Company. The Insider’s Guide to California was published in 1990 by Hunter Publishing Co. Lesbians and Gays and Sports, part of a series for young adults edited by the distinguished historian, Martin Duberman, was published in 1994 by Chelsea House. The Untold Story of Frankie Silver, Was She Unjustly Hanged?, was published in 1998 by Down Home Press. Two of the Missing is currently under option by Ralph Hemecker and Mythic Films. Hemecker was a director on the X-Files and Millenium television series and he was director and executive producer of the television series, Witch Blade. A new edition of The David Kopay Story was published in 2001 and it is currently optioned for a movie for television. 
In August of 2001, the world premiere of the play, Frankie, was presented at the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre at Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N.C. The play was written by SART director, Bill Gregg, and Perry Deane Young and was based on Young’s book, The Untold Story of Frankie Silver. The play, Frankie, has now been published in book form and is available from the authors. [See Books.] A new play by Perry Young and Bill Gregg had its premiere July 7, 2004 at Mars Hill. This was Mountain of Hope, a drama based on the life and death of UNC Prof. Elisha Mitchell, for whom the highest mountain in eastern America is named.
Born March 27, 1941 on a farm in Woodfin, near Asheville, N.C., Young attended the University of North Carolina off and on from 1959-1965. As a student, he wrote 15 different articles for the New York Times Travel section. Articles he wrote for the Chapel Hill Weekly on the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society won him the first place award in the Hearst Foundation’s competition for college journalists that year. In 1993, Young returned to UNC-Chapel Hill and earned his B.A. in Mass Communications, with a minor in American history. From his student days, he worked on newspapers in Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, and Chapel Hill, N.C. He also worked for United Press International in Raleigh in 1963 and in New York in 1967. In January, 1968, he went to Vietnam on assignment for UPI, arriving in Saigon the night the Tet Offensive began. In 1970, he worked for the New York Post in New York and in Beirut and Cairo. Since 1970, Young has published articles in numerous national magazines and newspapers. These include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Harper’s, Ms., Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, The Advocate, Washingtonian, Saturday Review, The Chicago Journalism Review, The Quill. A columnist for the Chapel Hill Herald and the Asheville Citizen-Times from 1996-2003, his articles now appear in The Independent and can be found in the archives at indyweek.com/durham/authors/perrydeaneyoung.html In 2005, Perry Deane Young presented all of his personal and professional papers from his long career as an author and journalist to the Southern Historical Collection of Manuscripts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A guide to the papers is available at www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/y/Young,Perry_Deane.html. Perry Deane Young is available to speak to school and civic groups on any of the many topics he has written about in his long career as a journalist, author and playwright. Michael Congdon Don Congdon Associates 156 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010-7002 Telephone: 212-645-1229 FAX: 212-727-2688 E-mail: dca@doncongdon.com HOME • COMMENTARY • BOOKS • PLAYS • CONTACT 
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