‘Lindbergh’ biographer to lecture for Town Hall Celebrity Series

staff report

WARREN — Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg will lecture at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at W.D. Packard Music Hall as part of the Town Hall Celebrity Series.

Berg’s thesis on Maxwell Perkins won him the Charles William Kennedy Prize. He expanded his thesis into a book “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,” which became 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.”

In the ’90s, 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. His intense work resulted in the Pulitzer Prize winner, “Lindbergh.”

Berg met Katherine Hepburn in 1983. He wove the 20 years of friendship and material he had gathered into the biography, “Kate Remembered,” in the last few years of her life.

Berg lectures extensively and is working on a biography about Woodrow Wilson.

His books will be available for purchase and signing before and after the lecture.

Tickets are $25. Group rate (15 or more) is $15; students are $5. Call (330) 373-1900.