William Bast: William Bast. Writer: The Legend of Lizzie Borden. William Bast, the Edgar-winning TV screenwriter, was the first biographer of cinema icon James Dean, his close friend and lover. Bast and Dean met and became friends and roommates while drama students at U.C.L.A., and later roomed together in New York City. Bast first wrote about Dean a year after his death, in "James Dean: A Biography", which was published in 1956. The...
Known For: The Legend of Lizzie Borden (Writer), The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (Writer), The Colbys (Writer(creator)), The Outer Limits (Writer)