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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.
In 2020, Wasson published a book about the making of the 1974 movie Chinatown, titled . Later that year, a film adaptation of The Big Goodbye was announced, with Lorne Michaels attached as producer and Ben Affleck as director. Also in 2020, Wasson co-founded a publishing house with producer Brandon Millan.
Wasson was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Emerson College.
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. In July 2022, the court ruled for the transcripts to be unsealed.
In 2022, Wasson and Jeanine Basinger wrote an oral history book titled Hollywood: The Oral History.
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