Author: Gerold Frank
Born: 2 August 1907
Died: 17 September 1998
Bio: American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books, however, are **The Boston Strangler (1966)**, which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and ***An American Death (1972)***, about the assassination of ***Martin Luther King.***