Robert K. Massie
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Robert K. Massie
- Born: 1929
- Birthplace: Lexington, KY
Historian Robert K. Massie studied American history at Yale and modern European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. His book Peter the Great: His Life and World earned Massie the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981. Massie was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991.
Most Famous Works
- Nicholas and Alexandra (1967)
- Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980)
- Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (1992)
- The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (1995)
- Castles of Steel: Winning the Great War (2003)
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Works by Robert K. Massie
(b. 1929)
| 1980 | Peter the Great. Massie's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography is considered the new standard biography of the architect of modern Russia. Though not a scholarly work, Massie's work is cited as a "model for what scholarly writing ought to be" because it brings its subject vibrantly to life. Massie, a journalist, became interested in Russian history and the family history of Nicholas II after his son was diagnosed with hemophilia, the same disease that affected Nicholas's heir Alexei. Massie produced his first biography, Nicholas and Alexandra, in 1967. |
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