Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Robert K. Massie

Source: LINKcat

Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90.  (The New York Times, 12/2/2019)

Robert K. Massie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who wrote gripping, tautly narrated and immensely popular books on giants of Russian history, died on Monday at his home in Irvington, N.Y. He was 90.  

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, the literary agent Deborah Karl. 

In monumental biographies of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Catherine the Great (1729-96) and Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, who were assassinated with their five children and others in 1918, Mr. Massie captivated audiences with detailed accounts that read to many like engrossing novels. 

One was even grist for Hollywood: “Nicholas and Alexandra” (1967) was adapted into a film of the same title in 1971.

Read the 613-page book or watch the 4-minute trailer.



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