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A Scott Berg's Reading List

The biographer and consulting producer of Amazon’s “The Last Tycoon” might have been a doctor — “if only that didn’t require courses in biology, physics and organic chemistry. Oh…and med school.”

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By the Book: A Scott Berg (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-07-06).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Frances Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"the always compelling Frances Fitzgerald"
Peter H. Wood · Buy on Amazon
"Peter H. Wood's groundbreaking"
Langston Hughes · Buy on Amazon
"an eye-opening portrait of the artist as a young black man in the Midwest; and it's as American as "Look Homeward, Angel.""
Richard Holmes · Buy on Amazon
"nobody has influenced me more than Richard Holmes, with his exemplary biography of Shelley and even more with his memoirs"
Christopher Buckley · Buy on Amazon
"I think "They Eat Puppies, Don't They?" was the last of his books that I've read. I still laugh just thinking about "Thank You for Smoking.""
Cover of The Plot Against America
Philip Roth · Buy on Amazon
"It is a mark of Roth's skill that one can hardly detect where the facts end and the fiction begins"

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