Renowned biographer A. Scott Berg has won a number of awards for his books, including 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's approach to his subjects tends to be sympathetic but by no means uncritical. He treated the issue of Charles Lindbergh's alleged anti-Semitism in a straightforward, unblinking manner. His book on Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered, appeared in 2003 only weeks after her death. He is currently working on a biography of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

When Scott was eight years old, his family relocated to Los Angeles, California where his father Dick Berg was a prominent film and television producer. He attended Palisades High School, where he discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald while performing research for a report. He was so intrigued by Fitzgerald's life and books that he was determined to apply to Princeton University, Fitzgerald's alma mater. He graduated from Princeton in 1971.

Scott also has contributed articles to many magazines, including Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.

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