In 2003 Berg published Kate Remembered, a biography-cum-memoir about his friendship with actress Katharine Hepburn that received mixed reviews. His second book Goldwyn: A Biography was published in 1989.īerg'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. 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. Scott Berg at the 2013 Texas Book FestivalĪndrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is an American biographer. FYI: Putnam was said to have paid a seven-figure advance for Lindbergh in 1990.A. The writing is workmanlike and efficient, and the story, familiar as it may be, encapsulates the history of the century. Lindbergh creating a life of her own while her husband chooses to be elsewhere that gives the biography the emotional scaffolding it lacked.
As the book reaches its conclusion, however, it's the sympathetic portrait of Mrs. government his leadership in the America First movement his role in first promoting commercial aviation and, during WWII, improving the efficiency of the Army Air Corps. Berg details Lindbergh's prewar trips to Nazi Germany at the request of the U.S. Perhaps more attention to Lindbergh's near-worship of the Nobel Prize-winning doctor, Alexis Carrel, would have explained more about his enigmatic character. There are no new insights into the boy flier, no new theories about the kidnapping, but there is a chilling portrait of a man who did not seem to enjoy many of the most basic human emotions. Lindbergh's 1956 affair with her doctor, Dana Atchley) instructs and fascinates through the richness of detail. The result is a solidly written book that while revealing few new secrets (there are discoveries about Lindbergh's father's illegitimacy and Mrs. Berg (Max Perkins) writes with the cooperation, although not necessarily the approval, of the Lindbergh family, having been granted full access to the unpublished diaries and papers of both Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh, writes Berg, was "the most celebrated living person ever to walk the earth." It's a brash statement for a biography that makes its points through a wealth of fact rather than editorial (or psychological) surmise, but after the 1927 solo flight to Paris and the 1932 kidnapping of his infant son, most readers will agree.
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