Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff
b. 1961-10-26 · From United States- Books
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Stacy Schiff (born October 26, 1961, in Adams, Massachusetts) is an American biographer and essayist. Her 1999 biography Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Saint-Exupéry: A Biography was a finalist for the same prize in 1995.
Her other books include A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (winner of the George Washington Book Prize), Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem, 1692, and The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and lives in New York City.
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Stacy Schiff was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for her book "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)" in 2000. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a recipient of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.