tom frist has just Finished his Tenth Book (Available in April 2025)
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Several years ago, I wrote a memoir, Before the Grass Withers, telling my story. Now that I am eighty and the grass has withered even more, I want to leave this small book for young members of my family and others highlighting some of the truths that I have learned in life. I hope that it will be helpful to them as well as to you as we all have to choose our own worldviews and make our own decisions that hopefully will lead to us having lives of integrity, purpose, meaning, service, and joy. " |
About the Author
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Thomas Ferran Frist has spent much of his life promoting the health, relief, rehabilitation, and economic development of people worldwide. He has worked with camp and street kids, taught at a university in India on a Fulbright scholarship, set up wartime refugee programs in Vietnam as a UNICEF field director, has been a psychiatric aide at Yale, and has done extensive social research in Tanzania and Brazil. He has also founded and directed local and national organizations for the disabled in Brazil, been a WHO-PAHO consultant, served as the president of international organizations for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the U.S. and Europe, established an economic development program in Nicaragua, and contributed as a college board member and volunteer in NGOs in the U.S. He is the author of ten books, including four novels and has contributed a chapter to a textbook on Leprosy as well as articles to scientific journals. Tom and his wife, Clare, have two children, five grandchildren, and many other beloved extended family members and friends. They mostly divide their time between their home in Montreat, North Carolina, and their family and projects in the USA, Brazil, and Central America. More information about him, his organizations, and his other books can be found in other sections of this website.
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