Perry Deane Young, journalist, author, and playwright, was born 27 March 1941, in Woodfin, N.C. Young has worked for many North Carolina newspapers and international publications, covered the Vietnam War for United Press International, and written several non-fiction books. The papers include correspondence with editors, publishers, friends, and family members; letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials from Young's experiences in the Vietnam War and about Vietnam; and items relating to Young's writings, especially (1975), about journalists Dana Stone and Sean Flynn, who disappeared in Vietnam, and (1985), about co-writer Evelyn Walker's malpractice suit about abusive psychotherapy. Included is correspondence with Jim Shumaker, editor of the , about Vietnam; Allen Ginsberg in 1982 about a conference; Terry Sanford; Judy Loeb; poet Robert VanderMolen; Hannah Tillich; Robbie Robertson; Gloria Steinem about gender issues; Reynolds Price; writer Ron Dorfman; writer Ron Hollander; musician Casse Culver; photographer David Hume Kennerly; gay football player David Kopay, whose biography Young co-authored; writer Lewis H. Lapham; photographer Kenneth Maley; writer William Wright (Bill); writer Christopher Isherwood; Georgia congressman and actor Ben Jones; writer Rosemary Daniell; and a copy of an undated letter from Truman Capote congratulating Young on . Two of the Missing A Killing Cure Chapel Hill Weekly Two of the Missing
