2022: The Biographer’s Aha! Moment

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. SCOTT BERG, who has spent the last fifty years telling the stories of 20th-century America’s most iconic cultural figures, shares some of his adventures in chronicling the lives of Charles Lindbergh, Katharine Hepburn, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Goldwyn, book editor Max Perkins, and now Thurgood Marshall; and he divulges his “Aha! Moments,” those unexpected epiphanies that occurred in his research when the essences of his subjects revealed themselves—in a long-lost letter or a sheet of stamps or a flower or even some old grocery bills. Aha!