Stacy Schiff
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Born | Stacy Madeleine Schiff October 26, 1961 Adams, Massachusetts |
Occupation | Writer and editor |
Education | Phillips Academy (Andover) |
Alma mater | Williams College |
Genre | Biography, essay, non-fiction |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize |
Website | |
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Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961)
Early life and career
Schiff was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded by Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen, a professor of French literature at North Adams State college (now called Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts).[2] Schiff graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and subsequently earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990.
Career as author
Schiff won the 2000
Schiff's A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) won the George Washington Book Prize.[3] It was made into Franklin, a 2024 miniseries starring Michael Douglas.
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."[4] The New Yorker termed the book "a work of literature";[5] Simon Winchester predicted "it will become a classic".[6] Cleopatra appeared on The New York Times's Top Ten Books of 2010,[7] and won the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.[8]
Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1692 was published in 2015. The New York Times described it as "an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative".
Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post.[13][14][15] 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.[16]
Awards and honors
- National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship[17]
- 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellowship[17][18]
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)[19]
- 2006 George Washington Book Prize, A Great Improvisation[20]
- 2015 Lapham's Quarterly Janus Prize[21]
- 2017 New England Historic Genealogical Society Lifetime Achievement Award in History and Biography[22]
- 2018 French Ministry of Culture, Chevalier des Arts et Lettres[23]
- 2019 American Academy of Arts and Letters[24]
Works
Books
- Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books. 1999. ISBN 0-330-37674-8.; winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize[26]
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt. 2005. ISBN 0-8050-6633-0.; published in the UK as Dr Franklin Goes to France
- ISBN 978-0-316-00192-2.
- The Witches: Salem, 1692. Little, Brown and Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0-316-20061-5.
- ISBN 9780316441117.
Columns and reviews
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- "Know It All". The New Yorker. July 24, 2006. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007.
- ^ "Stacy M. Schiff, An Editor, Weds". The New York Times. May 14, 1989.
- ^ Thompson, Bob (May 24, 2006). "Schiff Wins Washington Book Prize For Work On Franklin". The Washington Post.
- ^ Ruden, Sarah (November 2010). "Book Review: Cleopatra". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Thurman, Judith. "The Cleopatriad". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ^ "Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff - Author Biography". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2010". The New York Times. December 1, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ "2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award". PEN America. November 15, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (October 25, 2015). "Stacy Schiff's The Witches Shines a Torch on Salem Trials". The New York Times. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ "Amazon Book Review". www.amazonbookreview.com. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff.html
- ^ http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-witchesand-their-hunters-1445618862?alg=y
- ^ Suellen Stringer-Hye (1999). "An interview with Stacy Schiff". Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2006.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Stacy Schiff details biographer's triumphs, tribulations, obsessions". iBerkshires. June 13, 2001.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on April 10, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ a b "ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions". Los Angeles Central Library. Archived from the original on December 27, 2005.
- ^ "Stacy Schiff". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
- ^ "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff (Random House)". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
- ^ "George Washington Book Prize Past Winners". Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
- ^ "The Decades Ball – June 1, 2015". Lapham's Quarterly. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ^ "2017 Annual Dinner". www.americanancestors.org. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ^ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres". www.culture.gouv.fr/. Summer 2018.
- ^ Fedor, Ashley. "2019 Newly Elected Members". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ^ "1995 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
- ^ "2000 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes – Columbia University.
External links
- Official website
- Appearances on C-SPAN, including "Q&A – interview with Schiff", November 6, 2011
- Interview with Schiff on "New Books in Biography"
- "Stacy Schiff, The Art of Biography No. 6", The Paris Review, Winter 2017