This is not your average biography, where the whole thing is a narrative of the person's life. Rather, this is the story of the friendship between the author (a noted biographer) and the subject, with the life story of the subject woven in.

Scott Berg and Katharine Hepburn became friends in 1983, and while it was never explicit that he would write this biography, she shared stories of her life with him in such a way that it was clear she expected them to be recorded in some fashion. Berg uses these stories to jump in and out of the narrative of her life and career throughout the book, until the history caught up with the present, and then the story shifted to more of his observations and less of her stories.

The audio book narrator is quite good, giving the main personalities their own voices, and speaking Hepburn's quotes with her style and inflection.

I enjoyed listening to this on my recent road trip, and was thankful to finish it up at home, as the ending is rather sad. Hepburn lived life fully into her 80s, and the inevitable decline into her 90s was hard to witness, even third-hand.