Biographer, journalist
Graduated from Princeton University in 1971.
Was a close friend of Irene Mayer Selznick (daughter of MGM head Louis B. Mayer and first wife of David O. Selznick , producer of Gone with the Wind ).
Lives in Los Angeles
Brother of Jeff Berg and Tony Berg.
Has received the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize (for Lindbergh).
Son of Richard Berg.
In a relationship with producer Kevin McCormick for over 35 years.
Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature.
