in English from Princeton in 1971 after completing his 262-page-long senior thesis titled 'Three to Get Ready.' Career 1971–1998 Īfter graduating from Princeton in 1971, Berg decided to expand the thesis into a full-length biography, thinking it would take around nine months. Berg studied under Baker, who offered him 'constant encouragement and counsel' on his senior thesis, which was a study of editor Maxwell Perkins's career between 19. At Princeton, Berg performed in the Princeton Triangle Club theater troupe and considered dropping out to become an actor, though he was convinced by English professor Carlos Baker, a well-regarded biographer of Ernest Hemingway, to 'graduate, so at least you'll be an actor with a college degree'.

He applied to Princeton University, primarily because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater, and was accepted in 1967. 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 Fitzgerald (a favorite of Barbara's, who named her son in part after Fitzgerald) for a report and 'developed a mania' for his writing. While a sophomore at Palisades High School, Berg researched the author F. When Berg was eight, his family relocated to Los Angeles, California. Early life īerg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Barbara (Freedman) Berg and film producer Dick Berg. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair. His biography of Woodrow Wilson was published in 2013.īerg 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. 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.

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