Sam Wasson
Sam Wasson | |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Author, publisher |
| Notable works | Fosse Improv Nation The Big Goodbye Hollywood: The Oral History |
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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.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Wasson was born in Los Angeles. His maternal grandfather was former Variety executive Hal “Lew” Scott.[1][2] Wasson attended Wesleyan University, and USC School of Cinematic Arts.[citation needed]
Career
[edit | edit source]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 2020, Wasson published a book about the making of the 1974 movie Chinatown, titled The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood.[7] Later that year, a film adaptation of The Big Goodbye was announced, with Lorne Michaels attached as producer and Ben Affleck as director.[8][9] Also in 2020, Wasson co-founded a publishing house with producer Brandon Millan.[10]
Wasson was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University[11] and Emerson College.[12]
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
[edit | edit source]Books
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References
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External links
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American film historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- Harvard-Westlake School alumni
- Historians from California
- Jewish American historians
- University of Southern California alumni
- Wesleyan University alumni
- Writers from Los Angeles