Warren Perry, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, holds graduate degrees in medieval literature and creative writing from the University of Memphis and in drama from The Catholic University of America. His one-man shows on Walt Whitman and Lyndon B. Johnson have been produced by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2006, 2007), and his addendum to the corpus of Elvis literature, Lanterns on Lamar, was produced by Yellow Taxi Productions in March 2006 and performed as a staged reading by Sideshow Theatre Company in March 2008. His play The Sitters was a finalist in the Riant Theatre Strawberry One Act Festival in New York in August 2006 and was published in The Best Plays of the Strawberry One Act Festival in July 2007. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Shannon.