Stacy Schiff

Stacy Madeleine Schiff ( born October 26, 1961 in Adams, Massachusetts) is an American biographer and journalist.

Life

Ship studied at Phillips Academy and Williams College. Subsequently, she was until 1990 chief editor at Simon & Schuster. During this time she wrote several articles that were published in The New Yorker, The New York Times or The Times Literary Supplement.

With Saint- Exupéry: A Biography, published in 1994 their ship first biography of the French writer Antoine de Saint- Exupéry. A year later, she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the best biography or autobiography. The price they could win only with her ​​biography Vera ( Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov ) about the wife of the writer Vladimir Nabokov in 2000. For her third biography A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, she was awarded, among others, with a George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award.

Work

  • Saint- Exupéry: A Biography. New York ( 1994): A. A. Button. ISBN 0-679-40310-8. Saint- Exupéry, Albrecht Knaus Verlag ( 1994), ISBN 3-8135-1247-9
  • Véra: a life with Vladimir Nabokov, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich (1999), ISBN 3-462-02842-1
  • German by Helmut Ettinger and Karin Schuler: Cleopatra. A life. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10105-6.
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