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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]].<ref name=BN />
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]].<ref name=BN />


Schiff's ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'' (2005) won the [[George Washington Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Schiff Wins Washington Book Prize For Work On Franklin |work=The Washington Post |date=May 24, 2006 |first=Bob |last=Thomspon |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301731.html |quote=}}</ref> Her fourth book, ''Cleopatra: A Life'', was published in 2010. As the ''Wall Street Journal''<nowiki/>'s reviewer put it, "Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist." <ref>{{cite news | title=Book Review: Cleopatra – WSJ | work=The Wall Street Journal | date=November 2010 | first=Sarah | last=Ruden | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304741404575565321810001664 }}</ref> ''The New Yorker'' termed the book "a work of literature;"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/15/the-cleopatriad|title=The Cleopatriad|last=Thurman|first=Judith|website=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> [[Simon Winchester]] predicted "it will become a classic."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/14-non-fiction/1281-cleopatra-schiff?start=1|title=Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff - Author Biography|website=www.litlovers.com|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref>
Schiff's ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'' (2005) won the [[George Washington Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Schiff Wins Washington Book Prize For Work On Franklin |work=The Washington Post |date=May 24, 2006 |first=Bob |last=Thomspon |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301731.html |quote=}}</ref> Her fourth book, ''Cleopatra: A Life'', was published in 2010. As the ''Wall Street Journal''<nowiki/>'s reviewer put it, "Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist." <ref>{{cite news | title=Book Review: Cleopatra – WSJ | work=The Wall Street Journal | date=November 2010 | first=Sarah | last=Ruden | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304741404575565321810001664 }}</ref> ''The New Yorker'' termed the book "a work of literature;"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/15/the-cleopatriad|title=The Cleopatriad|last=Thurman|first=Judith|website=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> [[Simon Winchester]] predicted "it will become a classic."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/14-non-fiction/1281-cleopatra-schiff?start=1|title=Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff - Author Biography|website=www.litlovers.com|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> ''Cleopatra'' appeared on most year-end best book lists, including ''The New York Times''<nowiki/>'s Top Ten Books of 2010,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/10-best-books-of-2010.html|title=The 10 Best Books of 2010|date=2010-12-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and won the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/2011-penjacqueline-bograd-weld-award/|title=2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award|date=2012-11-15|website=PEN America|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>


Little, Brown published ''The Witches: Salem, 1692'' in 2015. ''The New York Times'' described it as "an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative,"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/books/stacy-schiffs-the-witches-shines-a-torch-on-salem-trials.html|title=Stacy Schiff’s 'The Witches' Shines a Torch on Salem Trials|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|date=2015-10-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> however, writing in the ''[[New York Times Book Review]]'', Jane Kamensky found it to be "curiously flat," offering "banalities" and a "tenuous grip on the period."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff.html</ref> Writing in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', Felipe Fernández-Armesto found that Schiff offered "a trial narrative unsurpassed for detail and impressive for her mastery of the fragmentary and frustrating sources." He found the overall result, however, to be "unsatisfying" because "she uncovers no new clues to understanding" the context of the trials.<ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-witchesand-their-hunters-1445618862?alg=y</ref>
Little, Brown published ''The Witches: Salem, 1692'' in 2015. ''The New York Times'' described it as "an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative,"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/books/stacy-schiffs-the-witches-shines-a-torch-on-salem-trials.html|title=Stacy Schiff’s 'The Witches' Shines a Torch on Salem Trials|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|date=2015-10-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> however, writing in the ''[[New York Times Book Review]]'', Jane Kamensky found it to be "curiously flat," offering "banalities" and a "tenuous grip on the period."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff.html</ref> Writing in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', Felipe Fernández-Armesto found that Schiff offered "a trial narrative unsurpassed for detail and impressive for her mastery of the fragmentary and frustrating sources." He found the overall result, however, to be "unsatisfying" because "she uncovers no new clues to understanding" the context of the trials.<ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-witchesand-their-hunters-1445618862?alg=y</ref>

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Stacy Schiff
Photographic portrait
Schiff in 2016
BornStacy Madeleine Schiff
(1961-10-26) October 26, 1961 (age 63)
Adams, Massachusetts
OccupationWriter and editor
EducationPhillips Academy (Andover)
Alma materWilliams College
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize
Website
stacyschiff.com

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961)[1] is an American nonfiction author.

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, The Times Literary Supplement, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among many other publications.[2][3]

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 the George Washington Book Prize.[4] Her fourth book, Cleopatra: A Life, was published 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." [5] The New Yorker termed the book "a work of literature;"[6] Simon Winchester predicted "it will become a classic."[7] Cleopatra appeared on most year-end best book lists, including The New York Times's Top Ten Books of 2010,[8] and won the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography.[9]

Little, Brown published The Witches: Salem, 1692 in 2015. The New York Times described it as "an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative,"[10] however, writing in the New York Times Book Review, Jane Kamensky found it to be "curiously flat," offering "banalities" and a "tenuous grip on the period."[11] Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Felipe Fernández-Armesto found that Schiff offered "a trial narrative unsurpassed for detail and impressive for her mastery of the fragmentary and frustrating sources." He found the overall result, however, to be "unsatisfying" because "she uncovers no new clues to understanding" the context of the trials.[12]

Schiff lived in New York City, as of 2010.[13]

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)[20]
  • Schiff, Stacy (1999). Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-37674-8.
(Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize)[21]
  • 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 978-0-316-00192-2.
  • Schiff, Stacy (2015). The Witches: Salem, 1692. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-20061-5.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007.
  2. ^ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999). "An interview with Stacy Schiff". The Pennsylvania State University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Book reviews by Stacy Schiff in the New York Review of Books". The New York Review of Books., The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among many other publications.
  4. ^ Thomspon, Bob (May 24, 2006). "Schiff Wins Washington Book Prize For Work On Franklin". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Ruden, Sarah (November 2010). "Book Review: Cleopatra – WSJ". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ Thurman, Judith. "The Cleopatriad". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  7. ^ "Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff - Author Biography". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  8. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2010". The New York Times. 2010-12-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  9. ^ "2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award". PEN America. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  10. ^ Alter, Alexandra (2015-10-25). "Stacy Schiff's 'The Witches' Shines a Torch on Salem Trials". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  11. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff.html
  12. ^ http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-witchesand-their-hunters-1445618862?alg=y
  13. ^ Kate Taylor (2010-12-10). "Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: skilled political operator, not sex goddess". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  14. ^ a b "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions". Los Angeles Central Library. Archived from the original on December 27, 2005.
  15. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Stacy Schiff". Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  16. ^ "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff (Random House)". The Pulitzer Prizes — Columbia University. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  17. ^ "The Decades Ball - June 1, 2015". Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  18. ^ "2017 Annual Dinner". www.americanancestors.org. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  19. ^ Fedor, Ashley. "2019 Newly Elected Members". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  20. ^ "1995 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  21. ^ "2000 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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