Author

Sam Wasson

8 books, mostly biography, for Harper and Harper Perennial, 2012–2026

Sam Wasson is an American author, journalist, and publisher born in Los Angeles who studied film at Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He writes extensively about Hollywood and cinema, including biographies of Bob Fosse and Francis Ford Coppola, film histories such as The Big Goodbye and Hollywood: The Oral History, and cultural studies including Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and Improv Nation. He has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker, and is a writer at large for Air Mail.