Preferred Citation
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Scope and Content
Biographical note
Title: Wayne Warga papers
Collection number: 0188
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8.0 Linear feet
9 boxes
Date: circa 1965-1994
Abstract: Collection contains the papers of Wayne Warga (1937-1994), an entertainment reporter and ghostwriter. His papers include correspondence,
research files, novel galleys and typescripts, and taped interviews. He wrote about John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Aaron Spelling
and Charles Rosendahl, along with a variety of other figures in the entertainment world.
creator:
Warga, Wayne
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Wayne Warga Papers, Collection no. 0188, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Scope and Content
Chronological files of Wayne Warga's research, notes and drafts for articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Cosmo, Westways
and People. Collection also includes notes, interviews, and research he collected while ghostwriting autobiographies for Aaron
Spelling and John Wayne; research and drafts for a prospective novel about the airship captain Charles Rosendahl; drafts,
publicity materials, and reviews for his mystery novel Hardcover; and research he collected while writing a book about the
movie industry in the 1960s and 1970s, titled Shooting Stars.
Biographical note
Wayne Warga was an author and entertainment journalist who wrote freelance articles for a number of publications, including
Life and Cosmopolitan. He also was on the staff of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s and 1970s and was a writer for the television
show Entertainment Tonight in the 1980s. He was born in 1938 in California, and passed away in 1994.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rosendahl, Charles E., (Charles Emery), 1892-1977 -- Archives
Spelling, Aaron -- Archives
Warga, Wayne -- Archives
Wayne, John, 1907-1979 -- Archives
Audiocassettes
Autobiography--Archival Resources
Correspondence
Ghostwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival Resources
Ghostwriting--California--Los Angeles--Archival Resources
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Interviews--United States--20th century--Archival resources
Journalists--California--Los Angeles--Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Journalists
Notes
Transcripts