A. Scott Berg
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A. Scott Berg at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Andrew Scott Berg December 4, 1949 Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Biographer, journalist |
| Education |
Palisades Charter High School Princeton University |
| Period | 1978–present |
| Notable works |
Lindbergh (1998) Kate Remembered (2003) |
| Notable awards |
National Book Award 1999 |
National Book Award
1980
Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is an American biographer.
After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis on editor Maxwell Perkins into a full-length biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which won a National Book Award. His second book Goldwyn: A Biography was published in 1989.
Berg's third book Lindbergh, a highly anticipated biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh was published in 1998, becoming a New York Times Best Seller, and winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2003 Berg published Kate Remembered, a biography-cum-memoir about his friendship with actress Katharine Hepburn that received mixed reviews. His biography of Woodrow Wilson was published in 2013.
Berg also wrote the story for Making Love (1982), a controversial film that was the first major studio drama to address the subjects of gay love, closeted marriages, and coming out. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.
Berg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. The son of Barbara (Freedman) Berg and film producer Dick Berg, Berg was raised Jewish. When Berg was eight, his family relocated to Los Angeles, California. While a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School, Berg researched the author F. Scott Fitzgerald (a favorite of Barbara's, who named her son in part after Fitzgerald) for a report and "developed a mania" for his writing. Berg read all of Fitzgerald's works and later recalled: "It was the first time I saw the fusion of an artist and his life, a tragic and romantic life." Scott applied to Princeton University, primarily because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater, and was accepted in 1967.
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