- Won the "Best Musical" Tony Award in 1966 for the script for the Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha".
- His television play "I, Don Quixote" is the perhaps the only case of a written-for-television play being even more successful as a stage musical ("Man of La Mancha") than it was in its original form.
- He was one of fourteen children.
- His musical, "Man of La Mancha" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Large Musical Production.
- After the great success of his TV play, "I, Don Quixote", he was approached about writing the screenplay for "Cleopatra" in the early days of preparations for that much-delayed film. Anything he may have written went unused.
- Son of Russian immigrants, Samuel Wasserman and Bertha Paykel.
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