tom frist has just Finished his Tenth Book (Available Now At Amazon.com in paperback and kindle)
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Several years ago, I wrote a memoir, Before the Grass Withers, telling my story. In it, I told of how I have been blessed with a loving family and friends, been educated in great schools, and have had many adventures and rewarding jobs living in nine different countries. Now that I am turning eighty, and the grass has withered even more, I want to leave this small book for members of my family and other young adults, highlighting some of the truths that I have learned during these years. I hope that it will be helpful to them and to you as we seek to achieve 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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