Octavia Jordan Perry (1895–1991) was an American writer. She was born 21 April 1895 in Orange County, North Carolina, where her father was a country doctor. While a young child, she moved with her family to Durham, North Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and three years later married Charles W. Perry.
In 1963, Perry published My Head’s High for Proudness, a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina. She published The Indian Bracelet, a children's story, in 1982. Other works by Perry include The Tuggles, Flow’rland Lays, These Jordans Were Here, and a centennial history of the First Presbyterian Church of High Point, North Carolina.
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“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)
“You’ll admit there’s always the possibility of some employee becoming disgruntled over some fancied injustice. Dissatisfaction always leads to temptation. There’s always purchasers for valuable secrets.”
—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghland’s secret (1935)