film, KANSAS CITY TRUCKIN, for the SF Chronicle. Death He died in a car accident on February 25, 1979, south of San Francisco, in which two others in another car were also killed. His blood alcohol level was found to be .26, nearly three times the legal limit at the time, and he was driving the wrong way on the freeway. Posthumous publications A collection of more than 90 of his reviews and columns, and a narrative about his life based on interviews conducted after his death, by his journalist sister, Abby Wasserman, was published by Chronicle Books in 1993. The book is Praise, Vilification & Sexual Innuendo, or How to Be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman, 1964-1979. References 1938 births 1979 deaths American male journalists American columnists Road incident deaths in California Tamalpais High School alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers