Nationality American Name Stacy Schiff | Genre non-fiction Role Author | |
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Spouse Marc de La Bruyere (m. 1989) Parents Morton Schiff, Ellen Schiff Books Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem - 1, Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov), A Great Improvisation: Franklin, Saint Exupery Similar People Cleopatra, Zahi Hawass, Vladimir Nabokov, Cotton Mather | ||
Is biography true with stacy schiff ron chernow and john matteson
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American nonfiction author. She was formerly a guest columnist for The New York Times. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Brad Gooch has called her "perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time."
Contents
- Is biography true with stacy schiff ron chernow and john matteson
- Stacy schiff 2010 national book festival
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- Books
- Selected essays and articles
- References
Stacy schiff 2010 national book festival
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, The New York Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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.
Schiff’s A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) won the George Washington Book Prize. Her fourth book, Cleopatra: A Life, was published to great acclaim in 2010. As the Wall Street Journal's reviewer put it, "Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist."The New Yorker termed the book "a work of literature;" Simon Winchester predicted "it will become a classic." Ron Chernow wrote, "Even if forced to at gunpoint, Stacy Schiff would be incapable of writing a dull page or a lame sentence." Cleopatra appeared on most year-end best books lists, including the New York Times's Top Ten Books of 2010, and won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography. A #1 bestseller, it was translated into 30 languages.
Little, Brown published The Witches: Salem, 1692 in 2015. The New York Times hailed it as "an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative." David McCullough declared the book "brilliant from start to finish." A former guest columnist at The New York Times, Schiff resides in New York City and is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.