Short Bio
New York Times bestselling author Paul Perry is a knight in Portugal’s Order of Saint Michael of the Wing, the oldest order of knighthood on the Iberian Peninsula. He started his own production company in 2005 with the goal of making innovative documentary films that matter.
His films have aired internationally and include such topics as near-death experiences, visions and miracles, the childhood of Jesus in Egypt, a History Channel presentation on the pirates of Madagascar, and most recently, a biographical documentary about artist Salvador Dali.
Perry is the co-author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Evidence of the Afterlife, Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light and Saved by the Light, which was made into a popular movie by Fox-TV.
His latest books, Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from this Life to the Next, and Paranormal: My Life In Pursuit of the Afterlife, are the fourth and fifth books he has co-written with Dr. Raymond Moody, the founder of near death studies.
More Background on Paul Perry
Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers. His work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Ladies Home Journal, Outside Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and several other popular periodicals. His books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world.
Paul is a graduate of Arizona State University and a former fellow at the prestigious Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He taught magazine writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and was Executive Editor at American Health magazine, 
a winner of the National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. Since becoming a full-time writer in 1988, Paul has written books on a variety of subjects, from the paranormal to piracy. In 1986 his interest in the effects and meaning of near-death experiences led him to a professional involvement with Dr. Raymond Moody , considered to be the founder of near-death studies. The two wrote three books together (The Light Beyond, Coming Back and Reunions).
Continuing with his interest in near-death studies, Paul became acquainted with Dr. Melvin Morse, a Seattle pediatrician who was researching the effects of near-death experiences on children. The two wrote four books together, two of which became New York Times bestsellers (Closer to the Light and Transformed by the Light). Their most recent book, Where God Lives, won the 2002 Aleph Award for the best spiritual book published that year in France.
In the midst of a voyage to Egypt in the 1990s, Paul became intrigued with the notion that Jesus had traveled extensively in the land of the pyramids, yet there was nothing written in the Bible about what he did there. This mysterious gap in the biography of the world’s most influential man nagged at Paul until he finally assembled enough information to put together a map of the Holy Family’s secret voyage.
Paul began following the trail of Jesus in Egypt shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Although there was concern for his safety among his friends and family, Paul saw this tense time in history as the perfect time to explore the meaning of religion in a land where the three main faiths co-exist in part out of a mutual respect for Jesus and his presence in Egypt.
