A poor Black kid from the segregated South, Wally Amos would go on to be one of the most recognizable business and pop-culture figures of the 1970s and 1980s after launching Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies—before sadly losing it all. Join host Sarah Amos as she finally faces her father’s incredible but extremely messy legacy head-on in Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story. Coming October 29. 

He started one of the most recognizable chocolate chip cookie brands in America, but this rags-to-riches (and back to rags) tale is the never-before-told story about how he made it happen/how it all happened. A first listen of the Vanity Fair podcast Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story, coming October 29.