Edmund Warren Perry, Jr.

Who is Edmund Warren Perry, Jr.?

Edmund Warren Perry, Jr. is a writer of both creative and nonfiction work and a museum professional with expertise in American history, popular culture, and literature. Perry is the author of two published plays -- Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, published by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and "The Sitters," published in The Best of the Strawberry One Acts, Volume Four. Perry also writes for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and he has been a curator and co-curator for two notable exhibitions for the Smithsonian: the 2010 National Portrait Gallery exhibition "One Life: Echoes of Elvis,", and the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, "Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer." He edited and contributed to Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley, the proceedings of an academic symposium organized to complement the Echoes of Elvis exhibition, and he was a co-author of the book Elvis 1956, which has accompanied the Elvis at 21 exhibition on its tour from 2010-2014. "Elvis 1956" received ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Bronze award for music writing in 2009.