Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff
Photographic portrait
Schiff in 2016
Born Stacy Madeleine Schiff
(1961-10-26) October 26, 1961
Adams, Massachusetts
Occupation Writer and editor
Nationality American
Education Phillips Academy (Andover)
Alma mater Williams College
Genre non-fiction
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961)[1] is an American nonfiction author. She was formerly a guest columnist for The New York Times.[2] Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Brad Gooch has called her "perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time."[3]

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.[4][5]

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.[6] 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."[7] David McCullough declared the book "brilliant from start to finish."[8] 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.[9]

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)[12]
  • Schiff, Stacy (1999). Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-37674-8.
(Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize)[13]
  • 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

  • "The Witches of Salem". New Yorker. August 31, 2015.
  • "Desperately Seeking Susan". New York Times. October 13, 2006.
  • Schiff, Stacy (2007-10-14). "Founding Chauvinist Pig?". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
(Review of Jon Kukla (2007-10-09). Mr. Jefferson's Women. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4324-7. )
  • "Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance." New York Times, December 4, 2010
  • "Eternal Flame – 'Country Girl: A Memoir,' by Edna O'Brien". New York Times. May 10, 2013.
  • "The Interactive Truth". New York Times. June 15, 2005.
  • "Camp Stories (review of Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank)". New York Times Sunday Book Review. February 16, 2012.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007.
  2. ↑ "News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ "Brad Gooch". Wall Street Journal. 2017-01-13. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  4. ↑ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999). "An interview with Stacy Schiff". The Pennsylvania State University.
  5. ↑ "Book reviews by Stacy Schiff in the New York Review of Books". The New York Review of Books.
  6. ↑ Thomspon, Bob (May 24, 2006). "Schiff Wins Washington Book Prize For Work On Franklin". The Washington Post.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ etherweave.com, Michael Borum //. "Stacy Schiff, author | Official website | THE WITCHES - now available | The Witches: Salem, 1692". www.stacyschiff.com. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  9. ↑ Kate Taylor (2010-12-10). "Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: skilled political operator, not sex goddess". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  10. 1 2 "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions". Los Angeles Central Library. Archived from the original on 2005-12-17.
  11. ↑ "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff (Random House)". The Pulitzer Prizes — Columbia University. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  12. ↑ "1995 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
  13. ↑ "2000 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
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