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Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961 in Adams , Massachusetts ) is an American biographer and journalist .
Life
Schiff studied at Phillips Academy and Williams College . She then was editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster until 1990 . During this time she wrote several articles that were published in The New Yorker , The New York Times and The Times Literary Supplement .
With Saint-Exupéry: A Biography , Schiff published her first biography about the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1994 . A year later she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography or Autobiography . She was only able to win the prize with her biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) about the wife of the writer Vladimir Nabokov in 2000. For her third biography, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America , she received a George Washington Book Prize and an Ambassador Book Award , among others .
In 2006, Schiff was researching an article on Wikipedia that later revealed that Wikipedia author Essjay was not a theology professor, but a 24-year-old law student. The incident became known as the Essjay Case .
In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
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- Biographer
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Saint-Exupéry: A Biography . New York (1994): AA button. ISBN 0-679-40310-8 .
- Saint-Exupéry , Albrecht Knaus Verlag (1994), ISBN 3-8135-1247-9
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) . (1999) Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-37674-8 .
- Véra: a life with Vladimir Nabokov , Kiepenheuer & Witsch (1999), ISBN 3-462-02842-1
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America . New York (2005): Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6633-0 .
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Cleopatra: A Life. Little . (2010) Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-00192-9 .
- German by Helmut Ettinger and Karin Schuler: Cleopatra . One life . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10105-6 .
- Essays
- Know It All, Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? , The New Yorker , July 31, 2006
- Desperately Seeking Susan , The New York Times , October 13, 2006
- Founding Chauvinist Pig? , The New York Times, October 14, 2007
- Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance , The New York Times, December 4, 2010
Web links
- Stacy Schiff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Stacy Schiff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Newly elected members 2019. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ship, Stacy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schiff, Stacy Madeleine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biographer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adams , Massachusetts, United States |