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Kate Remembered. A. Scott Berg. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
She was a powerful woman, the "world's greatest actress," a four-time Academy Award winner, a noted style-setter, and a role model for women everywhere. A. Scott Berg's biography of screen legend Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), titled Kate Remembered, provides an intimate and personal portrait of one of the most scintillating icons in American popular culture.
As the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Max Perkins, Samuel Goldwyn, and Charles Lindbergh, Berg enjoyed the unique experience of becoming friend and confidante of Hepburn during the last twenty years of her life. In his author's notes, Berg states, "This book is . . . not a critical study of either Katharine Hepburn's life or her career. It is rather, as true an account of her life as I can present, based on countless hours of private conversations during which she reminisced . . . more than my remembrances, this book intends to convey hers" (xii).
Making Kate's acquaintance in 1983, when he wrote an article for Esquire on the fifty most influential people of the last half-century, Berg soon became fast friends with Hepburn as she singled him out to become...