Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, PETER THE GREAT: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography), THE ROMANOVS: The Final Chapter, DREADNOUGHT: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, and CASTLES OF STEEL: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, and CATHERINE THE GREAT: PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN.

Books by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert K. Massie brings us the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at 14 and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful and captivating women in history.