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Perry Moore

Perry Moore is best known as the author of the best-selling "Hero," a novel about a gay teenage superhero and as executive producer of the three Narnia Chronicle films. Born in Richmond, VA Moore graduated from the University of Virginia and interned at The Virginia Film Festival, MGM and The White House. Moore lived in New York City with his partner Hunter Hill. He spent several years seeking the film rights to the C.S. Lewis books, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." He wrote and spoke to the author extensively over a period of years and was instrumental in bringing the project to the big screen. In 2008, Perry Moore's "Hero" won the Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. At the time of his death, Moore and his partner were working on a film project with Julianne Moore. The night before he died Moore called his father with the extraordinary news that he had secured to film rights to a fourth C.S. Lewis film, "The Magician's Nephew." Moore was also working on a novel "Way of the Wolf, Book One: Fire, about triplets who inherit super powers and have to stop a villain from taking over the Earth." Perry Moore passed away in his sleep at 39 years old.