Stacy Schiff
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| Stacy Madeleine Schiff | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 26, 1961 Adams, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Author |
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961[1]) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and guest columnist for The New York Times.
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[edit] Biography
Schiff is a graduate of Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Her essays and articles have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement.
Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[2]
Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in the biography or autobiography category for Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, also in biography.
Currently a guest columnist at The New York Times, Schiff resides in New York City.
[edit] Notable Articles
Schiff wrote a New Yorker profile of Wikipedia ("Know It All" column, July 31, 2006)[3] which in early 2007 was widely cited in the Essjay controversy.[4]
[edit] List of works
[edit] Books
- 1994. Saint-Exupéry: A Biography. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-40310-8
- 1999. Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-37674-8
- 2005. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0-8050-6633-0. Published in the UK as Dr Franklin Goes to France. ISBN 0-7475-6923-1
- 2009. Cleopatra (work in progress)
[edit] Selected essays and articles
- "Desperately Seeking Susan." New York Times, October 13, 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1422790
- ^ http://www.lapl.org/events/aloud/mar-apr_05/s-schiff.html
- ^ Schiff, Stacy (July 24, 2006). Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?. Know It All. The New Yorker. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
- ^ Andrew Wolfson. "Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky. dropout: Man resigns post after controversy", Louisville Courier-Journal, March 6, 2007. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "An Interview with Stacy Schiff" by Suellen Stringer-Hye, published in April 1999 by Random House.
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Schiff, Stacy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schiff, Stacy Madeleine |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American Female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adams, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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