Radio, television, and film writer Nate Monaster co-wrote That Touch of Mink (1962) with Stanley Shapiro, Call Me Bwana (1963) with Johanna Harwood, and contributed to classic television shows such as Bachelor Father, Alcoa Theater, The Donna Reed Show, Andy Griffith, All in the Family, Goodyear Theater, Get Smart, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Three’s a Crowd, and Archie Bunker’s Place. He also wrote for the Burns and Allen radio show. Monaster received the WGAw Morgan Cox Award in 1984.

He was born on September 22, 1911, and died in Los Angeles on May 12, 1990.