Stacy Schiff
| Stacy Schiff | |
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| Born |
October 26, 1961 Adams, Massachusetts |
| 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 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
- National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship[5]
- Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, New York Public Library, Director's Fellow,
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellowship[5]
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize, Vera
- 2006 Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2006 Gilbert Chinard Prize, A Great Improvisation
- 2006 George Washington Book Prize, A Great Improvisation
- 2006 Ambassador Book Award (American Studies), A Great Improvisation
- 2010 EMMA Award for journalistic excellence, "Who's Buried in Cleopatra's Tomb?"
- 2011 Library Lion by the New York Public Library
- 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, Cleopatra
- 2012 Phillips Academy Alumni Award of Distinction
- 2012 The French-American Foundation Vergennes Achievement Award
- 2013 Honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College
- 2014 BIO Award, Biographers International Organization
- 2015 Newberry Library Award
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
- "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 2 "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007.
- ↑ "News about Stacy Schiff, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times". The New York Times.
- ↑ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999). "An interview with Stacy Schiff". The Pennsylvania State University.
- ↑ Kate Taylor (2010-12-10). "Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: skilled political operator, not sex goddess". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- 1 2 "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions (Los Angeles Central Library)".
- ↑ "1995 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
- ↑ "2000 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
External links
- Official Website
- "An Interview with Stacy Schiff" by Suellen Stringer-Hye, published in April 1999 by Random House.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Schiff on "New Books in Biography"
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