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Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is an American biographer.

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A. Scott Berg about Mind:

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him ...
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A. Scott Berg about Time:

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school ...
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A. Scott Berg about Smile:

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never ...
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A. Scott Berg about Political:

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring ...
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A. Scott Berg about Man:

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the ...
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Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is an American biographer.

After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis upon 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 extremely 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 virtually his friendship bearing in mind actress Katharine Hepburn that conventional mixed reviews. His biography of Woodrow Wilson was published in 2013.

Berg furthermore wrote the balance for Making Love (1982), a controversial film that was the first major studio drama to residence the subjects of cheerful love, closeted marriages, and coming out. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.

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A. Scott Berg about Said:

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

A. Scott Berg about Man:

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

A. Scott Berg about Life:

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

A. Scott Berg about I Am:

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

A. Scott Berg about Time:

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Scott Berg about Soul:

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

A. Scott Berg about Age:

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

A. Scott Berg about People:

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

A. Scott Berg about Parents:

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

A. Scott Berg about Think:

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

A. Scott Berg about Political:

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

A. Scott Berg about Trust:

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

A. Scott Berg about Mind:

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

A. Scott Berg about Smile:

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.