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Stacy Schiff
Born (1961-10-26) October 26, 1961 (age 63)
Adams, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhillips Academy (Andover)
Alma materWilliams College
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961)[1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for The New York Times.[2]

Biography

Schiff, born in Adams, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover) 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 and The Times Literary Supplement.[3] She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review.

Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Vera, a biography of Vera Nabokov, wife and muse of Vladimir Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Saint-Exupéry: A Biography of Antoine de Saint Exupéry.[1]

Schiff's A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) won a number of awards and was published in the U.K. under the title Dr. Franklin Goes to France. Her biography Cleopatra: A Life was published in 2010.

A guest columnist at The New York Times, Schiff resides in New York City.[4] She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Awards and honors

Works

Books

  • Schiff, Stacy (1994). Saint-Exupéry: A Biography. New York: A.A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40310-8.
(Nominated for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize)[6]
  • Schiff, Stacy (1999). Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-37674-8.
(Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize)[7]
  • Schiff, Stacy (2005). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6633-0. (Published in the UK as Dr Franklin Goes to France
  • Schiff, Stacy (2010). Cleopatra: A Life. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-00192-9.
  • Schiff, Stacy (2015), The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2015). New York: Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316200615.

Selected essays and articles

(Review of Jon Kukla (2007-10-09). Mr. Jefferson's Women. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4324-7.)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999). "An interview with Stacy Schiff". The Pennsylvania State University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Kate Taylor (2010-12-10). "Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: skilled political operator, not sex goddess". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  5. ^ a b "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions (Los Angeles Central Library)".
  6. ^ "1995 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "2000 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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