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14 quotes by A. Scott Berg

Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer. 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. His second book, Goldwyn: A Biography, was published in 1989. Berg's third book, a highly anticipated biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was...
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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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