Robert K. Massie

Robert Kinloch Massie III (1929–2019) was an American journalist and historian renowned for his biographies of the Russian Imperial family, particularly the House of Romanov. He won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for "Peter the Great: His Life and World" and was awarded the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman." Massie also served as president of The Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991.