Steve Kosareff
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Steve Kosareff

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Steve Kosareff is an author, graphic designer, historian, screenwriter, film director, editor and producer. His first book, "Window to the Future: The Golden Age of Television Marketing and Advertising" was published by Chronicle Books in 2005. The book fondly looks back at the culture of marketing and advertising television sets during the golden age of American manufacturing in the 1950s and 60s. He next wrote, produced and directed a related documentary, "TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer" about the few remaining mom-and-pop stores which sold and repaired television sets in the United States.

As a student of film noir Kosareff revisited his past and wrote the true crime memoir, "Satin Pumps: The Moonlit Murder That Mesmerized the Nation" published by WildBlue Press in February 2021. "Satin Pumps" revisits the infamous 1959 Finch-Tregoff murder case in which Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend and medical assistant, Carole Tregoff, conspired with others to murder his wife, Barbara Jean. Kosareff was just eight years old when Finch, who also happened to be the family doctor murdered his wife. Kosareff’s personal connections to the players and the close physical proximity to events proved to be invaluable in building the story from his point of view as a child and later as an adult looking back at contradictions that have plagued the case for sixty years.

In 2025 Kosareff published his second book on the cultural history of the television set, "The Glass Eye Invasion—Television Sets Invade the Midcentury Home." Kosareff's new book, "Something Like That" revisits his father's 20-year journey with long-term Alzheimer's and the impact it had on their family.

He lives in Santa Monica, California with his companion, Paul L’Esperance and their love bird, Mousie.
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    • Satin Pumps

    • The Moonlit Murder That Mesmerized the Nation
    • By: Steve Kosareff
    • Narrated by: Zach NeSmith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-2021
    • Language: English
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