Robert K. Massie

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Robert K. Massie (born 1929) is an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, he spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University. Massie began as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1964, and then left to work at the Saturday Evening Post.

While a journalist, Massie wrote and published his first breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra. His interest in the Czar's family was stirred by the birth of a son with hemophilia, which also afflicted the Czar's son Alexei. In 1971 the book was made into an Academy Award winning film of the same title.

Massie won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. This was later turned into a mini-series on NBC in 1986, and won three Emmy Awards.

He was also president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991.[1] While president of the Guild, he famously called on authors to boycott any store refusing to carry Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.[2]

[edit] Books by Massie

• Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (Random House, c2003) by Robert K. Massie, ISBN 0-679-45671-6 (also J. Cape, 2004, ISBN 0-224-04092-8)
• Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War (Random House, c1991) by Robert K. Massie, ISBN 0-394-52833-6 (also Ballantine Books, 1992, ISBN 0-345-37556-4)
• Journey (Knopf, 1975) by Robert and Suzanne Massie, ISBN 0-394-49018-5
• Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album, 1860-1914 (Vendome Press, 1981) introductory text by Robert K. Massie ; picture research and description by Jeffrey Finestone, ISBN 0-86565-015-2 (also Greenwich House/Crown Publishers, c1983, ISBN 0-517-41472-4)
• Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Athenum, 1967) by Robert K. Massie, ASIN B000CGP8M2 (also, Ballantine Books, 2000, ISBN 0-345-43831-0 and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-57912-433-X)
• Peter the Great: His Life and World (Knopf, 1980) by Robert K. Massie, ISBN 0-394-50032-6 (also Ballantine Books, 1981, ISBN 0-345-29806-3 and Wings Books, 1991, ISBN 0-517-06483-9)
• The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Random House, 1995) by Robert K. Massie, ISBN 0-394-58048-6 and ISBN 0-679-43572-7
• There's an Old Southern Saying: The Wit and Wisdom of Dan May (Crabby Keys Press, 1993) compiled by William May Stern, foreword by Robert K. Massie, ISBN 0-9638911-0-3

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[edit] References

• Massie Interview with Booknotes on Dreadnought
• "How WWI was waged at sea deck" by John M. Taylor in The Washington Times. Review of Dreadnought including brief biological notes on Massie.