Firpo Carr is a best-selling author who resides in the Los Angeles area, and who hails originally from Watts via South Los Angeles. Over a decade and a half ago Harvard University requested one of Firpo's books for its library system. Realizing the value of his unique writings, Harvard now carries two of his published works. As noted below, other prestigious colleges and universities from around the world would use his writings as textbooks. His works have been produced in 54 languages (as translated by dedicated native-speaking translation teams around the world) and have reached well over three times as many lands (170 and counting), and his weekly articles are translated into 38 languages, making his writings available to millions.

He is an internationally known author, historian, scholar, Bible translator, lecturer, former radio show producer, former radio show host, university instructor, documentary producer/screenwriter/director, and newspaper columnist. He has appeared as an eminent scholar on such nationally televised documentaries as Encounters with the Unexplained: Secrets of the Bible--What Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Tell Us?, and the prime time specials Ancient Secrets of the Bible I, and Ancient Secrets of the Bible II.

In 1989, before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, he was the honored guest of the Soviet Union as he made history by taking the first color photographs of the oldest most complete manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. These medieval documents date as far back as the tenth century C.E. According to the August 4, 1990, issue of the Los Angeles Times, while in the Soviet Union Carr went about "filling various scholarly requests, such as recording documents on church councils for medieval specialists at Stanford University."

He has been featured with other distinguished scholars on CBS's Today Religion and KTLA's Pacesetters. During the debate on the release of the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls, KCAL9's Pat Harvey and Steve Jackson interviewed Firpo on his ground-breaking new book, The Divine Name Controversy (Vol. 1).

He experienced the Watts Revolt of 1965, the Los Angeles Uprising of 1992, and the ever-present threat of gang violence in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects, L.A.'s largest. While with IBM for ten years Firpo made extraordinary technical contributions and spent countless hours visiting inner city elementary, junior high, and high schools in association with the company's community service programs. His technical accomplishments moved IBM, uncharacteristically, to release a news story--in connection with his works--to the major newswire services.