Robert K. Massie

Each year, the Leon Levy Center for Biography selects a biographer of note to deliver an annual lecture from the perspective of his or her acclaimed work about the process of researching and writing a biography. Robert K. Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Russian history and the author most recently of Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, which won the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Born in Kentucky and raised in Tennessee, Massie studied at Yale and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Massie's first book, Nicholas and Alexandra, published in 1967 and translated into 17 languages, was a New York Times bestseller for 46 weeks, and became an Academy Award-winning film. His book Peter the Great: His Life and World won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981, and became an Emmy Award-winning television mini-series. Massie is also the author of Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War; Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea; and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter.

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