Stacy schiff is the author of a great improvisation and vera mrs. Franklin, france, and the birth of america, winner of the george washington book prize and the ambassador book award. Schiff has received fellowships from the guggenheim foundation, the. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer stacy schiff discussed her 2010 biography, cleopatra. Schiff, born in adams, massachusetts, is a graduate of phillips academy andover preparatory school, and earned her b. I remembered little about the famous egyptian ruler.
Above all else, cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious. Dec 31, 2011 famous long before she was notorious, cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Vladimir nabokov, won the pulitzer prize in biography in 2000, while her book saintexupery was a pulitzer prize finalist. Stacy schiff has a serious girl crush on cleopatra. Fourteen women and five men, convicted of witchcraft, were hanged, and one more, a man who refused to plead, was. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. To understand cleopatra is to understand how ancient history was written, by whom and for whom, and why.
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Salem, 1692 at the 2016 library of congress book festival in washington, d. Franklin, france, and the birth of america, winner of the. Its tempting to use historian stacy schiffs revelatory, sumptuously written new book, the witches. Fourteen women and five men, convicted of witchcraft, were hanged, and one more, a man who refused to plead, was crushed to. History in the hands of stacy schiff is invariably full of life, light, shadow, surprise, clarity of insight, and so it is again and then some in her latest work, the witches. Stacy schiff was educated at phillips academy and williams college. Schiff talked about growing up in western massachusetts and her early days as an editor with. Stacy schiff cleopatra was on a political mission to. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.
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