Local figure
Perry Deane Young
Perry Deane Young wrote a column for the Chapel Hill Herald from 1996 to 2003. He entered UNC in 1959, left, and returned to graduate in 1994. Sent to Vietnam by United Press International in 1968, he wrote Two of the Missing (1975) and co-wrote The David Kopay Story (1977).
Source: UNC Libraries: Perry Deane Young Papers, 1954-2004 (finding aid)
1941–2019 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Perry Deane Young speaks at Chapel Hill High School after gay-authored books are pulled from a reading list After four gay- and lesbian-authored books were pulled from an English teacher’s multicultural reading list at Chapel Hill High School, Young and author Susan Johnson spoke at an evening program there and joined a panel. The Orange Lesbian and Gay Association and Many Voices, One Community sponsored it. People: Mike NelsonIn the index: Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 28, 1994, p. 3 (Authors Promote Sexual Orientation in CHHS’ Multicultural Curriculum)
- Perry Deane Young writes a column for the Chapel Hill Herald Young, a Vietnam War correspondent and author, wrote a column for the Chapel Hill Herald from 1996 to 2003.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Perry Deane Young Papers, 1954-2004 (finding aid)
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- Chapel Hill High School Schools and academies · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 4 Orange County pages naming Perry Deane Young DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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