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Perry Wayland Sinks
A minister and religious writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he wrote practical Christian books for families and general readers. His best-known work, The Reign of the Manuscript (1917), explores how handwritten books shaped the history of literature before print took over.
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The Reign of the Manuscript
by Perry Wayland Sinks
About the author
Perry Wayland Sinks was an American religious author whose books were published from the 1890s into the early 1900s. Catalog records confirm works including Popular Amusements and the Christian Life (1896), About Money; Talks to Children (1903), and The Reign of the Manuscript (1917).
The title page of The Reign of the Manuscript identifies him as "Perry Wayland Sinks, S.T.D." and lists several earlier books, showing that he wrote both devotional and educational works. His writing moved between everyday moral topics and broader literary history, with The Reign of the Manuscript offering a readable survey of the age of handwritten texts before the spread of printing.
Clear biographical details about his personal life are hard to verify from the sources available here, so this overview stays close to what his published works reliably show: a thoughtful Christian writer interested in teaching, reading, and the life of books.