About me
Dr. Warren Zanes is a New York Times bestselling author and a Grammy-nominated documentary producer. For ten years he was the Executive Director of Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation (RRFF). A former VP of Education and Programs at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Warren has taught at several American universities, including Case Western Reserve University, University of Rochester, Colorado College, The School of Visual Arts, and, currently, New York University. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Oxford American, and more. He is the editor of collections on Jimmie Rodgers and Tom Petty, has written books including Dusty in Memphis, Revolutions in Sound: Fifty Years of Warner Bros. Records, Petty: The Biography, and Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. He collaborated with Garth Brooks on Brooks’ bestselling six-volume Anthology series and has written liner notes for projects including George Harrison’s Let It Roll and Elvis Presley: The Searcher. After conducting interviews for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Zanes acted as Consulting Producer for the Oscar-winning Twenty Feet from Stardom, writer on The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, and was a producer on the Grammy-nominated 8-part PBS series Soundbreaking, executive produced by Beatles producer George Martin. A former member of Warner Bros. recording artists The Del Fuegos, he has released four solo recordings with Dualtone and is currently a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon’s Rogue Oliphant, co-writing songs with Muldoon. His book on Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska is currently in production with 20th Century Fox, being directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeremy Allen White. Zanes is an executive producer on the project. Currently at work on a full biography of Bruce Springsteen’s life and career, with Springsteen’s participation, Zanes continues to write and play his own music, with a new recording scheduled for release in 2025.