Samuel V. Lemley is curator of special collections at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Lemley has held research fellowships at Princeton University Libraries, the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Harvard University's Houghton Library, Rare Book School, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. In 2024, he edited a book on the four Folios of Shakespeare's plays that accompanied a pair of exhibitions at CMU and the Frick Pittsburgh. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and son. His scholarly work has appeared in The Library, Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, and others.