Lawrence "Larry" Parr (May 21, 1946 – April 2, 2011) was a chess player, author and editor.
Politically, Parr, known to be a passionate anti-communist ideologue, classified himself as a libertarian.
[citation needed] He was a close friend of Grandmaster Larry Evans and they often collaborated on projects.
Parr played relatively little tournament chess, preferring instead to write books about the subject.
In 1995, he collaborated with GM Arnold Denker in writing The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories.