with Robert Massie on Jun 14, 2012
with Robert Massie on Jan 2, 2012
with Robert Massie on Nov 23, 1995
Robert K. Massie is an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a former Rhodes Scholar. His breakthrough book was “Nicholas and Alexandra”, a biography of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra of Hesse, and their family and cultural/political milieu. In 1971, the book was the basis of an Academy Award winning film of the same title. In 1995, in his book “The Romanovs: The Final Chapter” Massie updated “Nicholas and Alexandra” with much newly-discovered information.
Massie won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for “Peter the Great: His Life and World”. This book inspired a 1986 NBC mini-series that won three Emmy Awards. He was the president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. While president of the Guild, he famously called on authors to boycott any store refusing to carry Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses”. Massie?s other books include ” Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea”, “Journey”, and “Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album, 1860-1914”.
Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Massie
