Awards & Winners

A. Scott Berg

Date of Birth 04-December-1949
Place of Birth Norwalk
(Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Andrew Scott Berg, Scott Berg
Profession Journalist, Writer, Biographer
Andrew Scott Berg 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, 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 published in 1998. Lindbergh became a New York Times Best Seller, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2003, Berg published Kate Remembered, a biography-cum-memoir about his friendship with actress Katharine Hepburn that received mixed reviews. He completed a biography of Woodrow Wilson, which was released on September 10, 2013. Berg also wrote the story for Making Love, a controversial film that was the first major studio drama to address the subjects of gay love, closeted marriages, and coming out. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.

Awards by A. Scott Berg

Check all the awards nominated and won by A. Scott Berg.

1999


Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Honored for : Lindbergh

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Lindbergh

1980


National Book Award for Biography (Paperback)
Honored for : Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Biography (Paperback) Max Perkins: Editor of Genius