Jerry Leiber Songwriter

They started writing together the day they met, as teens.

From This is True for 21 August 2011

Fred Steiner TV composer

Steiner was a prolific composer of music for TV shows and films.

From This is True for 26 June 2011

Leonard Stern The adjective, noun

A writer, Stern and a partner invented a game that led to a publishing company just to supply the demand for it.

From This is True for 12 June 2011

Dick Wimmer Persistent writer

Wimmer handily beat the world record, but that was hardly what he wanted to do.

From This is True for 22 May 2011

Madelyn Pugh Lucy writer

“It was very freeing to write anything in the world and know she had the nerve to do it.”

From This is True for 24 April 2011

Martin Gardner Polymath

A writer, Gardner’s specialty was math, and he excelled at having fun with it.

From This is True for 23 May 2010

Aaron Ruben Andy Griffith Show writer

Ruben set “the tone and style” of the Andy Griffith Show …and gave Ron Howard his first movie camera.

From This is True for 7 February 2010