Stacy Schiff

American author · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65

Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American writer. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

Stacy Schiff is read about 67 times a day, in 15 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 10 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2018Chevalier des Arts et des LettresAward2015Newberry Library AwardAward2011PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyAward2000Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1961Born26 October 1961

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Awards

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2018

Newberry Library Award2015

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2011

Pulitzer Prize for Biography2000

Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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United States