found: The lights of Manchester, 1992:t.p. (Tony Warren) 1st prelim. p. (former actor turned scriptwriter in Britain in 1960's; consultant to Coronation Street (productions); lives in Manchester)
found: LC data base, 02-03-94(hdg.: Warren, Tony)
found: My Manchester.org WWW site, 6 Apr. 2006:celebrities (Tony Warren, born 1936 in Salford; creator of Coronation Street)
found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Mar. 3, 2016(Tony Warren (Anthony McVay Simpson), writer and actor, born 8 July 1936; died 1 March 2016; born Anthony Simpson in Eccles, outside Manchester; took the stage name of Tony Warren when performing on radio as a child; television scriptwriter; creator of the series Coronation Street; found new success as a novelist with The Lights of Manchester (1991), Foot of the Rainbow (1993), Behind Closed Doors (1995) and Full Steam Ahead (1998))
