Scott Berg graduated cum laude from Princeton University, where he majored in English. His thesis on Maxwell Perkins won him the Charles William Kennedy Prize. He expanded his thesis into a book “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” which become a best seller and won the National Book Award.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. approached Berg and offered him exclusive access to his father’s papers. After years of researching, he wrote the best seller “Goldwyn: A Biography.” More than a life story, it chronicled the American motion picture industry from its origins.
In the 90s, Mr. Berg began work on a biography of Charles Lindbergh. He was the first and only writer to be given unrestricted access to the Lindbergh archives and people connected to him. His intense work resulted in the Pulitzer Prize winner, “Lindbergh.”
Mr. Berg met Katharine Hepburn in 1983. He wove the twenty years of friendship and material he had gathered into the biography, "Kate Remembered.” In the last few weeks of her life, Mr. Berg wrote the final paragraphs, described as “the hardest I’ve ever had to write.”
Mr. Berg lectures extensively and is currently working on a biography about Woodrow Wilson.
