Perry Deane Young (March 27, 1941 – January 1, 2019) was a journalist, author, playwright, historian, and professional gardener.
[2] Dropping out of UNC, Young worked for several newspapers, including the Durham Morning Herald, the Raleigh News & Observer and the Chapel Hill Weekly.
[1] Young took an assignment with UPI in Vietnam, arriving in Saigon on January 29, 1968,[3] and his first story was about the Tet Offensive, which began later that night.
[6] For a time, Young and Kopay lived together in Washington, D.C.[7] A Killing Cure, about Evelyn Walker's malpractice suit against psychiatrist Zane Parzen, was published in 1982.
He lived in the basement of a non-profit counseling and support group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, working around the building in lieu of rent, from 1993 until his death.