MICHAEL P. MAURER is   a decorated  Vietnam  combat  veteran and the award-winning author of the novel Perfume River Nights and two books of poetry, A Journey Through A Warrior's Soul and Thoughts from Afar.

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 At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the army paratroopers and served in Vietnam in 1968-69 as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division.

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   A University of Minnesota graduate, he moved to Vietnam in 2003 and lived in Asia until 2012.

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Maurer and his poetry have been featured in Vietnamese newspapers and his first collection of poetry, A Journey Through A Warrior’s Soul, was translated into Vietnamese.

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His poetry and prose benefit veterans and social programs. All royalties from Perfume River Nights are dedicated to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

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