Paul Perry is the coauthor of several New York Times bestsellers, including Evidence of the Afterlife, Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light, and Saved by the Light, the last of which was adapted into a television film of the same name. His books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world and cover a variety of subjects from near-death experiences to the biographies of authors Ken Kesey and Hunter S. Thompson.

Perry is also a documentary filmmaker and owns Paul Perry Productions, a film production company, in Paradise Valley, Arizona. His writing and filmmaking earned him a knighthood in the Royal Family of Portugal, where he is a Knight Commander in the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing and the official filmmaker of the Portuguese Royal House.

Perry is a graduate of Arizona State University and has a Master of Fine Arts from Antioch University Los Angeles. He was also a fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University and taught magazine writing at the University of Oregon.

Paul Perry went on to become Executive Editor at American Health magazine.

In 1981, Perry went to China with author Ken Kesey to cover the First International Beijing Marathon for Runner's World magazine, for which he was an editor. Perry collaborated with Ken Babbs to produce On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Bus Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture. The book is a photo documentary of the Acid Trip that tells the story of the birth of the psychedelic era through interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, members of the Grateful Dead, and others.

Perry followed with Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, a biography of the famous Gonzo journalist. Much of the biography was based on several months spent together working on The Curse of Lono, a book that sprang from an article on the Honolulu Marathon published in Running, a magazine edited by Perry.

In 1986, Perry's interest in the effects and meaning of near-death experiences led him to a professional involvement with Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., The two have written seven books together (Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, Coming Back, Reunions, Paranormal, and Proof of Life After Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There Is an Afterlife.) He co-authored with Jeffrey Long, MD Evidence of the Afterlife and God And The Afterlife. In total, he has written or co-written 16 books on the subject of near-death experiences.

In 2001, only weeks after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Perry went to Egypt to follow the trail of Jesus in Egypt. This is a trail that follows ancient sites and artifacts and is believed by Christians and Muslims alike to be the route followed by the Holy Family as they fled from the soldiers of King Herod. Perry wrote Jesus in Egypt upon his return