Perry Deane Young

Perry Deane Young is a journalist, author, playwright, historian, and professional gardener. He is the author of Two of the Missing, about fellow journalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, who went missing during the Vietnam War and whose fates remain unknown, and the coauthor of The David Kopay Story, a biography of 1970s professional football player David Kopay, who revealed in 1975 that he is gay.

Young was born in Woodfin, North Carolina, near Asheville, the youngest ofchildren. His mother was Rheba Maphry Tipton Young. His father, Robert, died in 1958. He edited his high school newspaper and earned a scholarship to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959. He graduated in 1994.

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