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.
Son of Russian immigrants, Samuel Wasserman and Bertha Paykel.