Readings

Some Favorite Writers: A. Scott Berg

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Award-winning American biographer A. Scott Berg has authored biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Katharine Hepburn, Samuel Goldwyn, and Maxwell Perkins. His honors include a National Book Award for Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1979), a Guggenheim Fellowship for Goldwyn: A Biography (1989), and a Pulitzer Prize for Lindbergh (1999). Berg lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on a biography of Woodrow Wilson.

Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.

This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.