Michael Perry

Lee Butterworth

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, volunteer firefighter and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of the rural Midwest, his reflective roughneck deals with life in Middle America. Among his 25 books is his latest, "Improbable Mentors and Happy Tangents." Perry is a registered nurse who put himself through college working as a Wyoming cowboy and a roller-skating Snoopy. Even now, he makes occasional calls with the volunteer fire and rescue service near his home in rural Wisconsin. 

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Awards: New York Times Bestselling Author

Books:

Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents

How Firefighters and Poets, Truckers and Nurses, Soldiers and Singers, and Other Improbable Individuals Can Show You the Way in Business and Creativity
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Sneezing Cow Publishing
September 2025
ISBN 9798985663853
132 pages

Population: 485

Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins
July 2007
ISBN 9780061363504
272 pages