born 1961 · Writing
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Honors
52018Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
2015Newberry Library Award
2011PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award — Biography
2000Pulitzer Prize — Biography
—Guggenheim Fellowship
Bio
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Véra Nabokova won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.


