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 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 and have reached over twice as many lands (140 and counting), and his weekly articles are translated into 31 languages, making his writings available to millions.

He is an internationally known author, scholar, lecturer, former radio show producer, former radio show host, university instructor, documentary producer/writer/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.

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 During the debate on the release of the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls, KCAL9's Pat Harvey and Steve Jackson interviewed Firpo on his ground-breaking new book, The Divine Name Controversy (Vol. 1).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.

His works have been acknowledged by Jewish scholars at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in an encyclopedia entry on the Holocaust; Muslim scholars and authorities who invited him to speak at a prominent Muslim center in the Gulf area during the second Gulf war; and scholars in Christendom who feature his work on various Internet Web sites.

New York's Cornell University, Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and Kenyon College, "the oldest private institution of higher education in Ohio...founded in 1824," are among a growing number of colleges and universities that use his best-selling book, Germany's Black Holocaust:1890-1945 (GBH), as a textbook. Poet James Wright is one of several famous graduates of prestigious Kenyon College. ...

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