Stacy Schiff
American biographer and historian
Stacy Schiff is an American biographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for her life of Véra Nabokov. She has also written about Cleopatra, Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams.
1 summary 12 min of listening
American Born 1961 in Adams, United States
About Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff was born in 1961 and is an American writer. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. She has also written biographies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams and Cleopatra, as well as a book on the people and events of the Salem witch trials. Her books in our catalog include The Revolutionary. Schiff has been awarded Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. In 2006 she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City.