For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.In 1983 at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg then thirty-three and began a special friendship, one that endur