3 Quotes & Sayings By A Scott Berg

A. Scott Berg is an award-winning film critic, author and biographer. He is a correspondent for the "Los Angeles Times," and has written for such publications as "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," "The New York Times Book Review," "Harper's Magazine," and the "Saturday Evening Post." He has contributed to numerous anthologies and is a columnist for the "New York Times Magazine." Mr. Berg was a contributing editor at "Esquire" magazine from 1977 to 1995, where he wrote a column entitled, “In the Fiction Section.” In addition to his work as a writer, Mr Read more

Berg has published four volumes of memoirs: “Son of Hollywood: A Memoir,” “Son of God: A Memoir,” “Son of War: A Memoir” and “Son of Shame: A Memoir.” His most recent book is a memoir, “My Father's Song: A Son's Journey Through Life With a Man Named Bing.”

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Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing, " he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature. A. Scott Berg
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness. A. Scott Berg