Have you ever had a famous Amos cookie?

That's sort of a ridiculous question.

Of course you have, at least if you're the sort of person who has occasionally enjoyed delicious snacks that come in the cracker and cookie aisle in the grocery store.

I remember these little tan bags from the most lucky kids at school, they had those little chocolate chip cookies that are small

and crunchy in their lunch boxes. But if you are under a certain age, you might not realize

that Famous Amos is actually a real person, a real person named Wally Amos. Here's some facts about

Wally. He was born in Florida in the 1930s.

He was black.

Before becoming a cookie entrepreneur,

he was a talent agent at William Morris,

a phase of his career when he's credited with

discovering Simon and Garfunkel.

And that's when he met Marvin Gay,

who was one of the first people to fund his cookie business,

which started in 1975. He made it big, but then ultimately lost that business and most of his

fortune after a series of bad deals. Wally Amos also had children, four of them, from different

marriages, three sons and one daughter.

Sarah Amos, the youngest child, works in media in New York City, where her famous father became a sort of party trick.

A fun fact she'd reveal with the punchline, and no, there's no cookie money.

Her parents split up when she was an adult, and she was not exactly estranged

from her father, but wasn't close to him either. They were polite, but Sarah kept her guard up.

And that worked for her, she thought, until he died last year. And Sarah was left to figure out

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