Nathan Masters

Nathan Masters (born 1981) is a writer, Los Angeles historian, and host of Lost L.A., a public television series about Los Angeles history.[1][2][3] He manages public programs at the University of Southern California Libraries. In 2013, he launched a Gizmodo subdomain titled Southland about Los Angeles history and geography.[4] Masters grew up in Orange County, California.[5]

He has hosted the public television series Lost L.A. since its conception in 2016 and has also served as a producer. The series, originally based on a series of articles he wrote for KCET, has won multiple awards, including four Los Angeles Area Emmys and a Golden Mike.[6][7][8]

In 2019, the digital magazine Truly*Adventurous published his article "Pillars of Fire" about Los Angeles policewoman Alice Stebbins Wells and cult leader Alma Bridwell White. Amazon Studios subsequently acquired the story, with Rachel Brosnahan attached.[9] Masters published later another story with Truly*Adventurous about Soviet spy and FBI counterspy Boris Morros.[10] In November 2020 he announced that he had sold a book, titled Crooked, about "the most corrupt attorney general in U.S. history and the senator who took him down" to Hachette Books.[11]