Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Wasson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.