life," said writer Reeve Lindbergh, whose sister was Anne Lindbergh, elder daughter of Charles Lindbergh and Perrin's third wife. Perrin once wrote to a friend: "I currently spend half my time teaching at Dartmouth, half farming and half writing. That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware." Personal life Family Perrin was married four times: to Nancy Hunnicut, from 1960 until their divorce in 1971; to Annemarie Price, from 1975 until their divorce in 1980; to Lindbergh, from 1988 until her death in 1993; and Sara Coburn, until his death. He had two daughters from his first marriage. Environmentalism Perrin's interest in environmental matters, including alternative energy sources, led him to purchase an electric car in 1990. He recounted his adventures driving his converted Ford Escort from Solar Electric Engineering in California to his Vermont home in Solo: Life with an Electric Car (1992). One advantage of the car proved to be a rare reserved parking spot on campus—with its own electrical outlet. Perrin later put a solar panel array on his barn roof. Death Perrin, who suffered from Shy–Drager syndrome, died at his farmhouse on November 21, 2004, aged 77. His works A Passport Secretly Green (1961) Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America (1969) Vermont in All Weathers (1971) Amateur Sugar Maker (1972) First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1978) Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 (1979) Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1980) Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer (1983) Forever Virgin: The American View of America (1986, in Antaeus) A Reader's Delight (1988) Last Person Rural (1991) Solo: Life with an Electric Car (1992) A Child's Delight (1997) Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (2006), edited by Terry S. Osborne References External links November 30, 2004 Remembering Noel Perrin: NPR overview about Noel Perrin, including excerpts from Noel Perrin's 1978 NPR Interview The Boston Globe Biography of Noel Perrin Perrin Book Reviews Further Book reviews 1927 births 2004 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century essayists Alumni of the University of Cambridge American essayists Dartmouth College faculty Deaths from multiple system atrophy Duke University alumni Neurological disease deaths in Vermont People from Pelham Manor, New York People from Thetford, Vermont The Washington Post people United States Army officers United States