2010 Presenters
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff was educated in New England at Phillips Academy and Williams College. She was a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990 when she left to write Saint-Exupéry: A Biography which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and won numerous prizes abroad. Schiff's second book, Véra: Portrait of a Marriage was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. She is also the author of The Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, which won the George Washington Book Prize in 2006, and was named Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist.
Her essays and articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is currently a guest columnist at the New York Times. Schiff’s latest biography, Cleopatra, brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world, the Queen of the Nile.
LINKS:
Stacy Schiff writes an article about Cleopatra's comeback in The Daily Beast
Schiff's archived articles in The New York Times
Schiff is interviewed on Charlie Rose
Review of Schiff's Pulitzer Prize finalist, Saint-Exupery
Review of Schiff's Pulitzer Prize winner, Vera
