Perry Moore IV was born on November 4th, 1971 in Richmond, Virginia and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated from Norfolk Academy high school in 1990 and later graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English in 1994 where he was an Echols Scholar. During this time he also interned at the Virginia Film Festival, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in New York City and even interned in the White House for President Bill Clinton. Moore is known for being on the production team for The Rosie O’Donnell Show and later joined Walden Media. While here, he became the executive in charge of producing the film I Am David. However, people have come to know Perry Moore for being an executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This took him several years to gain the movie rights to the seven novels by C. S. Lewis in this series. He was also an executive producer with Prince Caspian (2008) and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). In addition to these, he worked along side his life partner, Hunter Hill, to co-write and co-directed the film Lake City and co-produced a Spike Jonze directed 2010 documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak which is about a children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
Perry Moore was also a writer. He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion. His passion for children’s literature and comics books is evident in his desire to produce The Chronicles of Narnia, but also in his novel, Hero which was published in 2007. In May 2008, Hero won a Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT Children’s/Young Adult novel of the previous year (2007). There had been talk of making the Hero into a movie on the Starz cable television channel as well.
Moore lived in New York City with his life partner Hunter Hill, a fellow writer for Paper magazine. Moore was not only known for being Christian and spoke publicly about his faith but was also about being gay. Moore was known for being a hard and persistent worker. Before his death on February 17, 2011, he was on pain medication for his knee and back problems that required corrective surgery but he had continued to put it off, due to his devotion to his vision. His death was a result of apparent accidental drug overdose.
