Warren Zanes

Warren Zanes is a New York Times bestselling author and a Grammy-nominated documentary producer. He received his Ph.D in Visual and Cultural Studies from the U. of Rochester and is currently teaching at NYU. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Oxford American, and more.  His books include Dusty in Memphis, Petty: The Biography, and Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, which was made into a feature film directed by Scott Cooper, starring Jeremy Allen White, with Zanes acting as an executive producer. A former member of The Del Fuegos, Warren has released four solo recordings on Dualtone/Nashville and is a member of Pulitzer-winning poet Paul Muldoon’s songwriter collective, Rogue Oliphant. He was a consulting producer on the Oscar-winning  Twenty Feet from Stardom, a producer on the Grammy-nominated PBS series Soundbreaking, conducted interviews for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, and wrote and directed his own PBS special focused on Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, featuring Lucinda Williams, Noah Kahan, Emmylou Harris, the Lumineers, Lyle Lovett and Eric Church.