Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Robert K. Massie

Robert K. Massie will deliver the annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture. Massie is the author of Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, which won the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction. Born in Kentucky and raised in Tennessee, Massie studied at Yale and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Massie’s first book, Nicholas and Alexandra, published in 1969 and translated into 17 languages, was a New York Times bestseller for 46 weeks, and became an Academy Award-winning film. His book, Peter the Great: His Life and World, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981, and became an Emmy Award-winning television mini-series. Massie is also the author ofDreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War; Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea; and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter.