A. Scott Berg
Autor von Charles Lindbergh. Ein Idol des 20. Jahrhunderts
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A. Scott Berg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on December 4, 1949. He became fascinated with novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was in high school. Berg even went so far as to attend Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1971, mainly because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater. While mehr anzeigen studying 20th-century literature at Princeton, Berg noticed that one name - that of editor Max Perkins - kept coming up in connection with authors such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. He decided to base his senior thesis on Max Perkins. Berg's research on Perkins continued for several years after graduation, eventually culminating in the 1978 publication of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which received the American Book Award. His other works include Goldwyn: A Biography and Kate Remembered, He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013 for his title Wilson. Lindbergh won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1998. He also wrote the story for a film entitled Making Love (1982). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Berg, Andrew Scott
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- 1949-12-04
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- male
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- USA
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- Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
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- Norwalk, Connecticut, USA (birth)
Los Angeles, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Palisades Charter High School
Princeton University (1971) - Berufe
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- Princeton University's Board of Trustees, 1999 - 2003
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- Guggenheim Fellowship (1982)
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- Berg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. The son of Barbara Berg and film producer Dick Berg, young Scott was raised Jewish. When Scott was eight, his family relocated to Los Angeles, California. While a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School, Scott researched the author F. 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. 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 applied to Princeton University, primarily because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater, and was accepted in 1967. After graduating from Princeton in 1971 he formulated a career plan at this time, and later recalled: "I did tell myself early on: I think it would be interesting, perhaps, to spend a career writing a half-dozen biographies of twentieth-century American cultural figures—each one, as I often use as my metaphor, a different wedge of the great apple pie."
A. Scott Berg lives with his partner Kevin McCormick, a film producer, in Los Angeles.
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