Noel Perrin

Edwin Noel Perrin (September 18, 1927 – November 21, 2004) was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College. He was known for writing about rural life.

Early life and education Perrin was born on September 18, 1927, in Manhattan and grew up in Pelham Manor, New York. His parents both worked as advertising copywriters at the J. Walter Thompson Agency.

Perrin once wrote to a friend: "I currently spend half my time teaching at Dartmouth, half farming and half writing. That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware."

Personal life Family Perrin was married four times: to Nancy Hunnicut, from 1960 until their divorce in 1971; to Annemarie Price, from 1975 until their divorce in 1980; to Lindbergh, from 1988 until her death in 1993; and Sara Coburn, until his death. He had two daughters from his first marriage. He recounted his adventures driving his converted Ford Escort from Solar Electric Engineering in California to his Vermont home in Solo: Life with an Electric Car (1992). One advantage of the car proved to be a rare reserved parking spot on campus—with its own electrical outlet. Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America (1969) Vermont in All Weathers (1971) Amateur Sugar Maker (1972) First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1978) Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 (1979) Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1980) Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1983) Forever Virgin: The American View of America (1986, in Antaeus) A Reader's Delight (1988) Last Person Rural (1991) Solo: Life with an Electric Car (1992) A Child's Delight (1997) Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (2006), edited by Terry S. Osborne