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New York, July 14: An authorized secret biography of the late actress Katherine Hepburn, which was kept under wraps for twenty years on her request, was out in bookshops Friday (July 11). Written by Pulitzer prize winning writer A. Scott Berg, `Kate Remembered` reveals interesting details of the late screen legend`s colorful life.
New York, July 14: An authorized secret biography of the late actress Katherine Hepburn, which was kept under wraps for twenty years on her request, was out in bookshops Friday (July 11). Written by Pulitzer prize winning writer A. Scott Berg, "Kate Remembered" reveals interesting details of the late screen legend's colorful life.
Katharine Hepburn, who died less than a month ago aged 96, reveals her most intimate thoughts about an intensely private life in a book the actress only wanted released after her death.
The authorized biography "Kate Remembered," by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The book, is based on conversations the author had with Hepburn over the course of a 20-year friendship. The book reveals untold details about Hepburn's career and her famous relationships with such men as movie star Spencer Tracy and recluse Howard Hughes, according to the publisher.
Berg, who began his relationship with Hepburn in 1983 when she was 75 and he was 33, also details her final years, away from the spotlight. For fans of the actress like Robin Waxenberg who was shopping for the book at a Manhattan book shop, any new material on the legend makes for great reading "I actually have read two of her other books but more information is always wonderful about her and it is nostalgic too."
Berg wrote most of the book between 1999 and 2001 and then publisher agreed to Hepburn's demand that it not be published or even discussed until her death. He said he wrote the book's final paragraphs in the last weeks of her life. Berg won a National Book Award for his 1978 book "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" and a Pulitzer for a 1998 biography of "Lindbergh," the famed U.S. aviator. Berg said he formed a special bond with four-time. Academy Award winner Hepburn during the course of the friendship.
The author said he had the rare opportunity to "spend so many hours with my subject at a time when she was really thinking her life through." Hepburn won her first Academy Award in 1933 for "Morning Glory" and won again for "Guess Who`s Coming to Dinner", "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond." She was nominated for the award eight other times.
She played opposite such leading men as James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. But it is with Spencer Tracy that her name will be forever linked. They first co-starred together in 1942s "Woman of the Year," and went on to appear in a total of nine films together.
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The authorized biography "Kate Remembered," by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The book, is based on conversations the author had with Hepburn over the course of a 20-year friendship. The book reveals untold details about Hepburn's career and her famous relationships with such men as movie star Spencer Tracy and recluse Howard Hughes, according to the publisher.
Berg, who began his relationship with Hepburn in 1983 when she was 75 and he was 33, also details her final years, away from the spotlight. For fans of the actress like Robin Waxenberg who was shopping for the book at a Manhattan book shop, any new material on the legend makes for great reading "I actually have read two of her other books but more information is always wonderful about her and it is nostalgic too."
Berg wrote most of the book between 1999 and 2001 and then publisher agreed to Hepburn's demand that it not be published or even discussed until her death. He said he wrote the book's final paragraphs in the last weeks of her life. Berg won a National Book Award for his 1978 book "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" and a Pulitzer for a 1998 biography of "Lindbergh," the famed U.S. aviator. Berg said he formed a special bond with four-time. Academy Award winner Hepburn during the course of the friendship.
The author said he had the rare opportunity to "spend so many hours with my subject at a time when she was really thinking her life through." Hepburn won her first Academy Award in 1933 for "Morning Glory" and won again for "Guess Who`s Coming to Dinner", "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond." She was nominated for the award eight other times.
She played opposite such leading men as James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. But it is with Spencer Tracy that her name will be forever linked. They first co-starred together in 1942s "Woman of the Year," and went on to appear in a total of nine films together.
Bureau Report