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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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The Raleigh News & Observer has an interesting profile on Perry Deane Young, author of the 1975 memoir Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, which won rave reviews:

Now, more than four decades later, Young’s acclaimed but nearly forgotten 1975 book about those friends has just been re-issued, and a Hollywood director who owns the movie rights has begun casting. Young’s third play premieres in July. And a film group is raising money to send him and others from his days in Vietnam back to that country for a documentary.

Suddenly it’s springtime again in the improbable life of the 68-year-old Vietnam war correspondent, author, playwright, bookseller, professional gardener, historian, raconteur and handyman. And it’s all the sweeter after a winter that included two months of radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

“Having a book, a play and these two movies floating around, yeah, it’s a good year already and getting better,” Young said.

 See Two of the Missing on Amazon.