Edward Moran, an author and historian who specializes in literary biography, has contributed many articles to reference works. In the 1990s, he served as associate editor of H. W. Wilson's World Authors series, a comprehensive update of the Twentieth Century Authors project originally edited by Stanley Kunitz in the 1930s. Edward also co-authored, with Patrick Coyne, a bio-bibliography of American writer Clarence S. Day., Jr., published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2003 as part of its Studies in American Literature Series. Moran has been an associate editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, and has written script, song lyric, and voiceover material for films by Yongman Kim, Marilyn Perez, and Jin Yan. Having contributed research as the literary consultant to the documentary film HYAM PLUTZIK: AMERICAN POET (2007, dir. Christine Choy and Ku-Ling Siegel), Moran is the literary advisor to the Plutzik Centennial Committee for 2011-12.