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''Lindbergh'' is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a ''New York Times'' Best Seller〔("BEST SELLERS: January 24, 1999" ), The New York Times, 1999-01-24. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.〕 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. == Background == Once he had completed his second book, ''Goldwyn: A Biography'' (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in 1989, Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be "another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins〔Berg's first book was ''Max Perkins: Editor of Genius'', a biography of editor Maxwell Perkins.〕 and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film".〔Berg (2003.) ''Kate Remembered''. p. 179-182.〕 After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he described as "the dramatic possibilities of the story of the great hero who became a great victim and a great villain".〔 "Charles Lindbergh is a window onto the whole world -- a great lens for observing the American century," Berg elaborated.〔 When asked about previous biographies of Lindbergh, Berg noted "The problem is most of what has been written about him is wrong or misleading."〔 Berg had been interested earlier by the idea of writing a book on the life of Lindbergh but "had scratched Lindbergh off my list" when he heard that Lindbergh's papers were locked up and inaccessible.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book Notes )〕 A few years later he was approached by Phyllis Grann, who ran Putnam at the time, about a biography of Lindbergh. Berg told her "I'd love to write it, but it can't be done. The papers are locked up. Mrs. Lindbergh is locked up. The children are locked up."〔 Grann suggested he pursue the subject anyway, although she told him "You will never get to Mrs. Lindbergh."〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=c-spanvideo.org )〕 Berg took this as a challenge and spent the next nine months trying to get in touch with her.〔 Berg's friend Katharine Hepburn offered to write Mrs. Lindbergh a letter, even though the two women did not know each other.〔 Not long after, Berg heard from Mrs. Lindbergh.〔 Berg convinced Lindbergh's widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who considered him "trustworthy,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lindbergh family bashes biographer )〕 to grant him unprecedented access to the man's archives, which he was surprised to find totaled "1,300 boxes, or several million papers".〔Weinraub, Bernard. ("At the Movies: Lindbergh Flies, Author Learns" ), The New York Times, 1998-04-10. Retrieved on 2007-10-30.〕 In addition to his research in the archives, Berg also spoke with Mrs. Lindbergh, their five children and Lindbergh family friends.〔 "You can't write about Charles without writing about me," the widow told Berg,〔 allowing him access to her memoirs and diaries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=post-gazette.com )〕 Berg found Lindbergh's papers "in a miraculous order."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berg Does Lindbergh )〕 Lindbergh retained copies of all his correspondence, including carbon copies of all letters and notes he wrote. Amongst the archives Berg found the tie Lindbergh wore on his famous flight.〔 Lindbergh annotated books that had been written about him, leaving abundant notes for future biographers.〔 Berg found detailed lists of "errors and corrections" to these books, some running up to 75 pages in length.〔 These qualifications were sometimes "less than flattering to him, but they were always the truth. It was done with a cold, objective sense of himself," Berg told Vanity Fair.〔 It took the author two years to go through the voluminous archives.〔 Berg officially started the process Spring of 1990, with Mrs. Lindbergh's authorization in place, although he had done basic research over the previous six months.〔 Putnam, Berg's publisher, was rumored to have paid the author a seven-figure advance in 1990 to allow him to write the book.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lindbergh )〕 With the advance in hand, the author spent four years researching his subject and another four years writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN Book News )〕 When the author told his grandmother that he was writing a biography of Lindbergh, she said "What do you want to write about him for? He was quite awful about the Jews."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Right Stuff )〕 During an interview not long after the release of the book, Charlie Rose recalled asking Berg nine years earlier "What's next?" Berg asked him to "think about who is the one person that hasn't been written about in a way that there's a giant great biography." When Rose could not think of a subject, Berg said "Lindbergh," and Rose replied "Absolutely right; he is one person I want to know a lot more about." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lindbergh (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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