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'''Stacy Madeleine Schiff''' (born [[1960]])<ref name=BN>{{cite web | url = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1422790 | title = Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff}}</ref> is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[United States|American]] nonfiction author and guest columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=NYT_Schiff>{{citation | title = News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times | publisher = New York Times | url = http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/stacy_schiff/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=stacy%20schiff}}</ref> |
'''Stacy Madeleine Schiff''' (born [[1960]])<ref name=BN>{{cite web | url = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1422790 | title = Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff}}</ref> is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[United States|American]] nonfiction author and guest columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=NYT_Schiff>{{citation | title = News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times | publisher = New York Times | url = http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/stacy_schiff/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=stacy%20schiff}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:34, 27 November 2009
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born 1960)[1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for The New York Times.[2]
Biography
Schiff is a graduate of Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement.[3]
Schiff has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[4]
Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov, wife and muse of Lolita and Pale Fire author Vladimir Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Saint-Exupéry: A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupéry.[1]
Schiff's A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America won the 2006 George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Institut Français’s Gilbert Chinard Prize.
Schiff was a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Currently a guest columnist at The New York Times, Schiff resides in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.[5]
Articles
Schiff wrote a New Yorker profile of Wikipedia ("Know It All" column, July 31, 2006),[6] the correction of which in February 2007 sparked the Essjay controversy.[7]
Bibliography
Books
- Schiff, Stacy (1994). Saint-Exupéry: A Biography. New York: A.A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40310-8.
- (Nominated for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize)[8]
- Schiff, Stacy (1999). Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-37674-8.
- (Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize)[9]
- Schiff, Stacy (2005). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6633-0.
- (Winner of the George Washington Book Prize in 2006)[10]
- (Published in the UK as Schiff, Stacy. Dr Franklin Goes to France. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 0-7475-6923-1.)
- Schiff, Stacy (2009). Cleopatra. (In preparation)
Selected essays and articles
- "Desperately Seeking Susan." New York Times, October 13, 2006.
- Schiff, Stacy (2007-10-14). "Founding Chauvinist Pig?". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
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- (Review of Jon Kukla (2007-10-09). Mr. Jefferson's Women. Knopf. ISBN 1400043247.
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References
- ^ a b "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff".
- ^ News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times, New York Times
- ^ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999), An interview with Stacy Schiff, The Pennsylvania State University
- ^ "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions (Los Angeles Central Library)".
- ^ Joyce Wadler (2000), PUBLIC LIVES; A Biographer Peers, Briefly, at Her Own Life, New York Times
- ^ Schiff, Stacy (July 24 2006). "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?". Know It All. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Andrew Wolfson (March 6 2007). "Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky. dropout: Man resigns post after controversy". Louisville Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ 1995 Finalists, The Pulitzer Prizes -- Columbia University
- ^ 2000 Winners, The Pulitzer Prizes -- Columbia University
- ^ Ben Franklin's French Adventure: George Washington Book Prize Celebration Honors Author Stacy Schiff, Washington College, 2006
External links
- "An Interview with Stacy Schiff" by Suellen Stringer-Hye, published in April 1999 by Random House.