Tucson Festival of Books

He Did It His Way ... and Theirs


For 30 years, author and humorist Michael Perry has been his own boss, working with a wide range of bright and creative people. Not long ago, he realized some of them had actually served as mentors, even if he didn’t know it at the time. If this is a leadership model, count us in.


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Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, volunteer firefighter and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of the rural Midwest, this reflective roughneck deals with life in Middle America....

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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
Michael Perry
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Sneezing Cow Publishing
September 2025
ISBN 9798985663853
132 pages
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Michael Perry
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins
July 2007
ISBN 9780061363504
272 pages
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