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John Perry

John Perry graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University, with additional studies at University College, Oxford, England. Before beginning his career as an author in 1997, he was an award-winning advertising copywriter and radio producer. John has published 21 books as an author, collaborator, or ghostwriter. He is the biographer of Sgt. Alvin York, Mary Custis Lee (wife of Robert E. Lee and great granddaughter of Martha Washington), and George Washington Carver. Among other books, he has also written about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial (Monkey Business, with Marvin Olasky, B&H Publishing, 2005) and contemporary prison reform (God Behind Bars, Thomas Nelson, 2006). He is a two-time Gold Medallion finalist and Lincoln Prize nominee. He lives in Nashville.

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b1989134100has quoted2 years ago
I was what I call a structured procrastinator: a person who gets a lot done by not doing other things
b1989134100has quoted2 years ago
Perfectionism of the sort I am talking about is a matter of fantasy, not reality.
b1989134100has quoted2 years ago
The fantasies of perfection are replaced by the fantasies of utter failure
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