About Wally Amos
Wallace Amos Jr. was an American writer and businessman. He was the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands, and was the host of the adult reading program Learn to Read. In March of that year, the first Famous Amos cookie store opened in Los Angeles, California. In 1986, Amos was awarded the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by President Ronald Reagan at the White House Conference on Small Business. Eventually, he became the agency's first African American talent agent.
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