Warren Beatty moved his family from Richmond to Norfolk and then to Arlington and Waverly, then back to Arlington, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in 1945. During the 1950s, the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. Beatty's elder sister is the actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine. His uncle, by marriage, was Canadian politician A. A. MacLeod. Beatty became interested in movies before his teens, when he often accompanied his sister to theaters. One film that had an important early influence on him was "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), which he saw when it
Louis S. Warren undergraduate work in history at Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1985. He became a teacher at Peterhouse School in Zimbabwe from 1985 until 1987. In 1988, he began graduate study at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1993. In addition to teaching at UC Davis, Warren has written or edited several books on US Western and Environmental History. He is the co-editor of "". He has received numerous awards for his writing, including: Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren (born December 8, 1962) is an American historian and a W. Turrentine Jackson