![]() When I started writing, I found that nobody knew very much about hemophilia when this boy was born in 1904, and when my son was born in 1956, beyond hospitals and laboratories." "It was not quite quill and scroll, but almost. ![]() "I had lunch at the New York Public Library every day and scribbled notes on yellow legal pads about everything I could find," Massie says. When Massie learned Tsar Nicholas II's son, Aleksey Nikolaevich, also had hemophilia, he wanted to know more. In 1956, Massie's first child, Bobby, was born with hemophilia. ![]() Massie has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613-1917. Massie, the bestselling author of "Nicholas and Alexandra," "Peter the Great" and "Catherine the Great," will speak at a dinner hosted by the Savannah Book Festival. Even though it took place in February, the Savannah Book Festival continues to draw in top-notch authors. ![]()
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