Metzger’s Dog, his second novel, was a New York Times Notable Book and was voted one of NPR’s 100 Killer Thrillers–Best Thrillers Ever. His debut novel, The Butcher’s Boy, became the first in his same-titled series, and it also received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Some of the TV shows Perry helped produce were 21 Jump Street, Simon & Simon, and Start Trek: The Next Generation. This is where he met his second wife, Jo Anne Lee, who is also a writer and holds a doctorate in English. Between 19, he was assistant to the provost of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Over the years, he held several very diverse jobs, including commercial fisherman, maintenance man, weapons mechanic, university administrator and teacher, TV writer and producer, and, of course, book author. Some of his favorite authors are Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. As an English major, he always liked to read books of all sorts. Next he continued his education by attending the University of Rochester graduate school from where he earned his Ph.D.
Thomas attended Cornell University, from where he received a B.A. However, the first book that finally got published, The Butcher’s Boy, was a crime mystery novel, so this is the genre he would eventually settle on writing, going on to improve from book to book as his experience grow over time. He always wrote stories, even as a child, from science-fiction to fantasy, historical, and adventure tales. With both educated parents (his father Richard Perry was a superintendent of schools and his mother Elizabeth Perry, an English teacher), he grew up surrounded by a love of books. While he grew up at the western end of New York State, he has lived in Southern California since 1974. Thomas Edmund Perry was born in 1947, in Tonawanda, New York, which would become the setting for his Jane Whitefield series. The Book of the Lion (Bibliomysteries #20), 2015.
The Mayan Secrets (Fargo Adventures #5), 2013.A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield #8), 2014Ĭontributed to the series by Clive Cussler.
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