A. SCOTT BERG

" Les grands livres touchent tout le monde ", disait celui qui a révélé Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway – lequel lui dédia Le Vieil Homme et la Mer –, ou encore Thomas Wolfe. Maxwell Perki

For more than twenty years, Katharine Hepburn imparted many of the details of her life to me suggesting that I weave them into a book - one that would appear upon her death. Sad to say, the time has come to publish that book. But I find comfort in knowing she lived a very rich 96 years; and I have tried my best to honour her wish of making the book as true to her spirit as possible - as inspiring, as loving and as fun. Scott Berg KATE REMEMBERED is a loving tribute and a tender farewell that reveals an unusual relationship in a unique life, one fully lived - and largely according to Katharine Hepburns own rules. More importantly, it sets down many of the stories of that life as she saw them, full of sentiments she felt should not be made public until after her death. Ultimately, this book is not only a story of the poignant final twenty years in which Scott Berg knew Katharine Hepburn, but also a tale of a great theatrical personality and the better part of the century that was the stage for her distinguished life.

A. Scott Berg nos muestra a una Katherine Hepburn totalmente sincera: detalles inéditos de su relación con Spencer Tracy y H. Hugues y sus anécdotas más interesantes.

Lindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his baby was kidnapped and found dead. The unbearable trial forced Lindbergh into exile in England and France. However, his soon fasciation and involvement with the Nazi regime, resulted in public opinion turning against him. His life was at the forefront of pioneering research in aeronautics and rocketry. Also, his wife became one of the centurys leading feminist voices. This biography explores the golden couple who have been considered American royalty.

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time. In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg - then thirty-three - and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life. From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intended his role to be not just that of a friend but also of a chronicler, a confidant who might record for posterity her thoughts and feelings. Over the next twenty years, Kate used their many hours together to reveal all that came to mind, often reflecting on the people and episodes of her past, occasionally on the meaning of life. Here are the stories from those countless intimate conversations, and much more. In addition to recording heretofore untold biographical details of her entire phenomenal career and her famous relationships with such men as Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes, Kate Remembered also tells the amusing, often emotional story of one of the most touching friendships in her final years. Scott Berg provides his own memories of Katharine Hepburn offstage - quiet dinners in her town house in New York City, winter swims (she swam, he watched) in the Long Island Sound at Fenwick, her home in Connecticut, weekend visits with family members and dear friends...even some unusual appearances by the likes of Michael Jackson and Warren Beatty. Finally, Kate Remembered discusses the legendary actress''s moving farewell, during which her mighty personality surrendered at last to her failing body - all the while remaining true to her courageous character. (...)

Katherine Hepburn, una lección de vida y arte.Autor de grandes biografías y ganador del Premio Pulitzer en 1999 por su libro sobre Charles Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg entabló una amistad con esta inolvidable actriz y gran mujer. En 1983, cuando acababa de cumplir 75 años, Hepburn le abrio las puertas de su casa y el escritor se convirtio en su confidente. Por estas paginas desfilan detalles ineditos de sus relaciones con Spencer Tracy y Howard Hughes, asi como interesantes anecdotas sobre sus encuentros con personajes como Michael Jackson. Pero lo que mas impacta son las lecciones de vida que Hepburn imparte con gran sentido del humor, sabiduria y fuerza de caracter.

Another deeply hued and character-rich biography to match his justly celebrated study of Lindbergh Financial TimesFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg comes the definitive and revelatory biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. This is not just Wilson the icon but Wilson the man.

La biografía definitiva de uno de los héroes del siglo XX, Charles Lindbergh, que en 1927 consiguió una hazaña indeleble con su avión El espíritu de San Luis, realizando el primer vuelo sin escalas entre Nueva York y Paris. Desde entonces Lindbergh se convirtio en una celebridad mundial y participo activamente en los acontecimientos que marcaron decisivamente la historia del siglo. Personaje polemico y emprendedor, esta obra retrata detalladamente todos los aspectos de su vida publica y privada.

Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era - a fierce independent force i a time when studios ruled, a producer of silver screen sagas who was, in all probability, the last Hollywood tycoon. In this riveting book, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer A. Scott Berg tells the life story of this remarkable man - a tale as rich with drama as any feature length epic and as compelling as the history of Hollywood itself.

The talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe among numerous others. But the man himself remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, confessor and friend. This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this editor extraordinaire in both professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkins stormy marriage and secret twenty-five-year romance with Elizabeth Lemmon, but also of his intensely intimate relationships with the leading literary lights of the twentieth century.

The legacy of silver screen tycoon Samuel Goldwyn comes to vivid life in this acclaimed biography from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Wilson, Lindbergh, and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.He was the premier dream-maker of his eraa fierce independent force in a time when studios ruled. He was a producer of silver-screen sagas who may have been, in the words of Harpers Bazaar, the last Hollywood tycoon. In this riveting book, biographer A. Scott Berg tells the life story of Samuel Goldwyn, as rich with drama as any feature-length epic, and as compelling as the history of Hollywood itself.

Even after twenty years, A. Scott Bergs Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindberg remains the definitive account of one of the 20th centurys most extraordinary figures. Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindberghrenowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to Americas entry into World War II. Lindberghs is a dramatic and disturbing American story, says the *Los Angeles Times Book Review, and this biographythe first to be written with unrestricted access to the Lindbergh archives and extensive interviews of his friends, colleagues, and close family membersis a thorough, level-headed evaluation of the glories, tragedies, and often infuriating complexities of this extraordinary life (Newsday).

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg - then thirty-three - and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life.From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intended his role to be not just that of a friend but also of a chronicler, a confidant who might record for posterity her thoughts and feelings. Over the next twenty years, Kate used their many hours together to reveal all that came to mind, often reflecting on the people and episodes of her past, occasionally on the meaning of life.Here are the stories from those countless intimate conversations, and much more. In addition to recording heretofore untold biographical details of her entire phenomenal career and her famous relationships with such men as Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes, Kate Remembered also tells the amusing, often emotional story of one of the most touching friendships in her final years. Scott Berg provides his own memories of Katharine Hepburn offstage - quiet dinners in her town house in New York City, winter swims (she swam, he watched) in the Long Island Sound at Fenwick, her home in Connecticut, weekend visits with family members and dear friends...even some unusual appearances by the likes of Michael Jackson and Warren Beatty. Finally, Kate Remembered discusses the legendary actresss moving farewell, during which her mighty personality surrendered at last to her failing body - all the while remaining true to her courageous character.Kate Remembered is a book about love and friendship, family and career, Hollywood and Broadway - all punctuated by unforgettable lessons from an extraordinary life.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a brilliant biography"* of the 28th president of the United States. *Doris Kearns GoodwinOne hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prizewinning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilsonthe most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the twenty-eighth President.In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless detailseven several unknown eventsthat fill in missing pieces of Wilsons character, and cast new light on his entire life.From the visionary Princeton professor who constructed a model for higher education in America to the architect of the ill-fated League of Nations, from the devout Commander in Chief who ushered the country through its first great World War to the widower of intense passion and turbulence who wooed a second wife with hundreds of astonishing love letters, from the idealist determined to make the world safe for democracy to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacityand the subterfuges around itwere among the centurys greatest secrets, from the trailblazer whose ideas paved the way for the New Deal and the Progressive administrations that followed to the politician whose partisan battles with his opponents left him a broken man, and ultimately, a tragic figurethis is a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilsons life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the iconbut Wilson the man.INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS