About N. Perryman Collins Books
The author, a native of Houston, Texas, holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Baylor University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He received six years of surgical training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and served two years in the United States Public Health Service at the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He was affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and at the time he retired from private practice, held the position of Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery. He is the author of surgical articles published in national peer reviewed journals. During his thirty- three years of practice as a thoracic surgeon in Houston, he began studying and collecting American art pottery. His studies included six years at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He and his wife live in Houston. They have four children and seven grand children.
