I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did..

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success..

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most ….

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and gre….

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' a….

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer..

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time..

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them..

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassin….

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked..

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence..

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates..