Don Piper
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Don Piper wrote "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life.". On January 18, 1989, Don Piper was driving on an old bridge, and before he cleared that bridge, a semi crossed into his lane and hit his small red Ford Escort head on, and he was killed instantly on impact. He claims to have gone to heaven, where he was reunited with loved ones. An hour and a half after the accident, another Baptist minister came to the scene as he was prompted by God to pray for Piper. Don came back to life, and he faced a long, grueling recovery. Piper's book only contains two chapters detailing what heaven was the like. The remaining chapters deal with Piper's recovery that included 34 separate surgeries. Piper wrote the book in collaboration with Cecil Murphey. It is narrated in first-person from Piper's point of view (although he personally does not remember the details of the accident).
