A.E. PERKINS

 
 
 
 
 
 
A. E. Perkins is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, historian, and author. His work has included chronicling the story of 1990s serial killer Jeffery Dahmer for ABC network radio, and covering the 2008 Summer Olympic Games for Chinese broadcaster CGTN. He's also reported on events as varied as the 1988 United States presidential election and the first night baseball game at Chicago's historic Wrigley Field.

 Perkins' first major non-fiction book, Beyond Our Vision:
Stories From the Decade That Changed Everything, was
researched and released as the world marked the 50 year
anniversary of many of the events that defined the early
1960s. The book profiles personalities including Madame Nhu,
the self-proclaimed First Lady of South Vietnam, who became an
unlikely lightning rod for American foreign policy in Indochina.
It also dives into the transition of American attitudes toward
the automobile, from extravagant early 1950s designs toward
the practical, economy-conscious cars of the late 1960s.
Finally, the book remembers Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela,
two of the decade's foremost civil rights leaders, who gave their most famous speeches only weeks apart and went on to find their lives forever changed shortly afterward.

Born and raised in the American midwest, Perkins draws from his
curiosity about events that changed the course of history during his childhood, and examines how they still impact and inform the lives of citizens in the 21st century.

Perkins earned an M. A. in Journalism at the University of Arizona, and regularly writes and reports on the moments, memories, and places that created the history we sometimes regard as the "forgotten 1960s."