Sam Wasson is an American author and publisher, who often writes about the history of cinema in Hollywood. His works include the biography Fosse, the history books Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood and the co-authored Hollywood: The Oral History.
During the writing of his Bob Fosse biography, Wasson and researcher Jane Klein unearthed lost footage of Fosse's 1961 ABC television show Seasons of Youth.[3] In 2014, Fosse was one of six books shortlisted for the $10,000 Marfield Prize,[4] and received the Special Jury Prize at the George Freedley Memorial Award.[5] Production rights for a limited television series based on the book were purchased by television channel FX in 2018.[6]
In 2021, Wasson and William Rempel filed a lawsuit to unseal a 2010 deposition transcript of Roger Gunson, a former deputy district attorney, in relation to the Roman Polanski sexual abuse case.[13] In July 2022, the court ruled for the transcripts to be unsealed.[14][15][16][17]
In 2022, Wasson and Jeanine Basinger wrote an oral history book titled Hollywood: The Oral History.[18][19]
Bibliography
Books
A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards. Wesleyan University Press. 2006. ISBN978-0-8195-6977-6.
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. HarperCollins. 2010. ISBN978-0-0620-0013-2.[20]