John Pitts Corry was raised a Quaker.  Corry graduated from Haverford College in 53' majoring in Philosophy and English literature.  He served in the Army two years during the Korean war, and became a conscientious objector in rural Mexico working for the American Friends Service Committee.  Corry is married to Betty Jean Corry - happily for over 50 years.  He has five children and ten grandchildren.

Corry has been writing steadily since early adolescence, and after twenty-five years of teaching in public elementary schools, took early retirement to write full time.  He has been writing for over 50 years; specializing in poetry, magazine and newspaper articles, travel reflections, philosophy, two neo-Platonic dialogues, several plays, and a recent autobiography (Something to Offend Everyone - A Christian Life). Most of the articles and short poems found homes in various magazines - Quaker, Catholic, Lutheran, and Mennonite - on the religious side, and small poetry journals on the secular side. 

Corry is interested in the interplay between religion, spirituality and the prevailing postmodern humanism. He is a practicing Catholic, a charismatic believer, and a Quaker, who is an active member of Middletown Friends Meeting in suburban Philadelphia.