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Date: November 9, 1998
Biographer Berg to Give Illustrated Lecture on Charles Lindbergh
Princeton, N.J. -- Noted author and film historian A. Scott Berg will deliver an illustrated lecture, with archival photographs and film clips, on Charles A. Lindbergh -- the subject of his new best-selling biography -- at 4:00 p.m. on November 13 in Wood Auditorium, McCosh 10.
Winner of the National Book Award, Berg has written biographies of legendary editor Maxwell Perkins and movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn. He is the first writer to be granted unrestricted access to Lindbergh's massive collection of personal papers.
Berg is a member of Princeton's Class of 1971, and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, his first book, began as his senior thesis. Lindbergh, which was published in September, is currently number five on the New York Times bestseller list, and film rights to the book have been acquired by Steven Spielberg.
Berg's lecture is sponsored by Council on the Humanities, the Program in American Studies and the Princeton Writing Program.