Paul Perry (author)
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Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Evidence of the Afterlife, Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light, and Saved by the Light which was made into a popular movie by Fox. His books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world and cover a wide variety of subjects from near-death experiences to biographies of authors Ken Kesey and Hunter S. Thompson. He is also a documentary filmmaker and owns SAKKARA Productions, a film production company, in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Perry's writing and film making earned him a knighthood in the Royal Family of Portugal where he is a Knight Commander in the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing.
Perry is a graduate of Arizona State University and has an MFA from Antioch University (Los Angeles). He was also fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in New York City and taught magazine writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. He went on to become Executive Editor at American Health magazine, a winner of the National Magazine Awards for General Excellence.
Perry is married to Darlene Perry and has three children.
In 1986 Perry's interest in the effects and meaning of near-death experiences led him to a professional involvement with Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., considered to be the founder of near-death studies. The two have written six books together (Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, Coming Back, Reunions and Paranormal.) He co-authored Evidence of the Afterlife. All told he has written or co-written 10 books on the subject of near-death experiences, four of which have become New York Times bestsellers.
"Although these books have been written with four different authors, I think of them as one work," he said in a 2008 interview. "They all probe the same question (What happens when we die?) from several different angles. It's one of mankind's most important questions and I believe these books have gone a long way in answering it."
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