A. Scott Berg
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Andrew Scott Berg (b. December 4, 1949, Norwalk, Connecticut) is a multi-award-winning American biographer. He has authored biographies of Katharine Hepburn, Maxwell Perkins, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. He is currently working on a biography of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
When Berg was eight years old, his family relocated to Los Angeles, California, where his father, Dick Berg, was a prominent film and television producer. He attended Palisades High School, where he discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald while performing research for a report. He was so intrigued by Fitzgerald's life and books that he determined to apply to Princeton University, Fitzgerald's alma mater. He graduated from Princeton in 1971.
Berg has won a number of awards for his books, including a National Book Award for Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1979), a Guggenheim Fellowship for Goldwyn: A Biography (1989), and a Pulitzer Prize for Lindbergh (1999). His book on Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered, appeared in 2003 only weeks after her death. Berg's approach to his subjects tends to be sympathetic, but by no means uncritical. He treated the issue of Charles Lindbergh's alleged anti-Semitism in a straightforward, unblinking manner. Berg also has contributed articles to many American magazines, including Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.
His brother is Jeff Berg, CEO of International Creative Management, a leading Hollywood talent and literary agency.
