Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents: How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show - Paperback

Perry, Michael: - Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, corporate speaker, volunteer firefighter/first responder, and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of the rural Midwest, his "reflective roughneck" takes on life in Middle America have left hundreds of thousands of readers and live audiences laughing, nodding, and sometimes misty. He is the author of over 25 books including Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, The Jesus Cow, Peaceful Persistence, and the novella Forty Acres Deep. Perry, a registered nurse who put himself through college working as a Wyoming cowboy and a roller-skating Snoopy produces the popular audio newsletter "Michael Perry's Voice Mail," performs widely as a humorist and speaker, tours with his band The Long Beds, works as a script writer, voiceover artist and audiobook narrator, and still makes an occasional call with the local volunteer fire and rescue service. "I grew up on the wooden end of a pitchfork," says Perry, "so no matter what I'm doing it's my experience as a Wisconsin farm boy and a Wyoming ranch hand that informs my approach. And none of it-whether it's a television documentary, a song, or a book-happens unless I sit down and write. Fortunately, writing is my favorite thing, and I'm grateful for the improbable mentors and happy tangents that delivered me to this place." Perry lives in rural Wisconsin and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.