Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series By the time she retired, Katharine Hepburn had won a record four Best Actress Academy Awards, with twelve nominations. Her six-decade acting career was universally acknowledged as one of the finest - if not the finest - in film history. Drawing on a series of recordings made over many years, beginning in the 1970s, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler has written the most intimate and personal biography ever published of this Hollywood legend.