Storytellers To the Nation: A History of American Television Writing

Television and Popular Culture

by Tom Stempel

Jam-packed with hundreds of anecdotes and quotes from in-depth interviews with over forty television writers, this is the first comprehensive history of writing for American television. These writers tell, often in wonderfully funny tales, of their experiences working with, and often fighting with, the networks, the censors, the sponsors, the producers, and the stars in trying to create shows.

307 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

Reviews

[Cynthia Bemis Abrams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Valuable for the first-hand accounts the author pulls from TV writers and producers who have long since passed. I am not sure what the point of the book was, as his historical chronology seems tied to the availability of his sources and knowledge.

[Batgrl (Book Data Kept Elsewhere)]

(Hardcover kept, culled paperback.)