0 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:0.0

Stacy Schiff’s Followers (1,107)

More followers…

Stacy’s Bookshelves

read (0)
currently-reading (0)
to-read (0)

Stacy’s Friends

Stacy hasn't connected with her friends on Goodreads, yet.

Stacy Schiff

Goodreads Author

Born

in Adams, Massachusetts, The United States

Website

http://www.stacyschiff.com

Twitter

stacyschiff

Genre

Nonfiction, History

Member Since

October 2012

edit data

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions.

Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Stacy Schiff questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

I'm not sure I'm following the rules, because this is a question about Cleopatra. Loved your book! There are still so many mysteries about Cleopatra. Is there a lost dream object out there -- something where you would say "If archeologists could only find X, it would tell us so much about Cleopatra?"

Stacy Schiff Given how little we have of Cleopatra -- one word in her handwriting, if indeed that is actually her handwriting -- almost anything would help. Some…moreGiven how little we have of Cleopatra -- one word in her handwriting, if indeed that is actually her handwriting -- almost anything would help. Some of what we know about justice in her day we know from legal documents that survived inside of mummified crocodiles. So more crocodile mummies, please! For years archeologists have searched for her tomb; it would not resolve the mystery of her death, but if found, it would tell us something of her life.(less)

flag

8 likes · like
3 comments

Not really a question? But I just want to say that I have very much enjoyed your books. You a a wonderful conversational style and have the ability to bring an historical figure and time to life. And you do great research to ensure accuracy OK. I had to include a question mark or it wouldn't take it. Silly, huh?

Stacy Schiff Would could be better than a compliment masquerading as a question? Thank you for the kind words. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the archives…moreWould could be better than a compliment masquerading as a question? Thank you for the kind words. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the archives reading around my subject, trying to figure out what she saw when she got out of bed in the morning, what preoccupied her during her day, and what she dreamed about at night. It would be nice to think all that prowling about -- most recently, in 17th century America, a shadowy, chilly, dislocated place -- paid off.(less)

flag

6 likes · like
Comment

See all 10 answers from Stacy Schiff…

Combine Editions
Stacy Schiff’s books

Average rating: 3.58 · 99,200 ratings · 7,465 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cleopatra: A Life 3.64 avg rating — 84,024 ratings — published 2010 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.15 avg rating — 12,941 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vera 3.85 avg rating — 1,043 ratings — published 1999 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America 3.88 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2005 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint-Exupéry by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Subject) 4.02 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: & Selections from His Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin, Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,898 ratings — published 1791 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) , Richard Howard (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 1,067,073 ratings — published 1943 — 2323 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Stacy Schiff…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

rss
Stacy’s Recent Updates

Stacy Schiff made a comment in the group Ask Stacy Schiff & Jodi Kantor - October 24, 2012 — Ask Stacy and Jodi! topic " Well the lovely thing about literature is that it is in itself a version of a life, whether prosaically or prismatically. Saint-Exupery was an intense ...more "
Oct 24, 2012 11:54AM
Stacy Schiff made a comment in the group Ask Stacy Schiff & Jodi Kantor - October 24, 2012 — In Conversation topic " Jodi wrote: "The first time I ever wrote about Michelle Obama, with my colleague Jeff Zeleny, we got what I have since come to think of as an Obama Re ...more "
Oct 24, 2012 10:19AM
Stacy Schiff joined the group Ask Stacy Schiff & Jodi Kantor - October 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 05:12AM · 1 like · like

More of Stacy's books…

Quotes by Stacy Schiff

“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

130 likes

“[Cleopatra's] power has been made to derive from her sexuality, for obvious reason; as one of Caesar's murderers had noted, 'How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!' It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

46 likes

“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

tags: accuracy, facts-and-ideas, history, myth

40 likes

See all Stacy Schiff's quotes »

Polls

What should our November non-fiction read (Biography) be?

Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire by Katherine Connelly

12 votes 29.3%

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs - Liesl to lead

9 votes 22.0%

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

7 votes 17.1%

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

5 votes 12.2%

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird

4 votes 9.8%

Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry - Carol to lead

2 votes 4.9%

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters by Valerie Kinloch

2 votes 4.9%

41 total votes

1 comment

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
History is Not Bo...: Group reads?	10	46	Nov 21, 2010 06:45AM
The Seasonal Read...: Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)	2589	970	Feb 28, 2011 09:05PM
100 books in 2011 : February Challenge	44	81	Mar 01, 2011 03:48PM
Every one's Choice: Winners for March	35	19	Mar 04, 2011 06:01AM
Cover to Cover Ch...: Robin's Hopefully Lengthy List of 100+ Books (2011)	14	70	Mar 17, 2011 05:45PM

More…

Stacy Schiff’s Followers (1,107)

Add New
Videos

Stacy’s Bookshelves

Stacy’s Friends

Stacy Schiff

Goodreads Author

Learn more
Ask the Author

Popular Answered Questions

Combine Editions
Stacy Schiff’s books

Upcoming Events

rss
Stacy’s Recent Updates

Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

recent posts
Stacy’s Groups

Stacy’s Friend Comments

Flag Abuse

Stacy Schiff

Goodreads Author

Popular Answered Questions

Upcoming Events

rssStacy’s Recent Updates

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Flag Abuse

rss
Stacy’s Recent Updates