Stacy Schiff
Auteur van Cleopatra een vrouwenleven
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Stacy Schiff was born on October 26, 1961 in Adams, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster until 1990. She is the author of several nonfiction books including Saint-Exupéry: A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupéry, toon meer Cleopatra: A Life, and The Witches: Salem 1692. She won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for Véra: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov in 2000. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Stacy Schiff
Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise? 1 exemplaar
First, Kill the Witches. Then, Celebrate Them. 1 exemplaar
Cleopatra. Una vida 1 exemplaar
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- USA
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- Adams, Massachusetts, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Opleiding
- Williams College (BA|1982)
Phillips Andover Academy - Beroepen
- editor
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- Simon & Schuster
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2006)
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- Eric Simonoff (William Morris Endeavor)
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- 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. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She lives in New York City. Her newest book is entitled "Cleopatra: A Life" (Little, Brown & Co., 2010).
Official website: www.stacyschiff.com
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Cleopatra; A Life by Stacy Schiff in Ancient History (augustus 2013)
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So the subject matter is fascinating, especially as I am from Massachussetts and have been to all those towns. The book makes me want to go back and read more about the Puritans or perhaps re-read 'The Scarlett Letter' or 'The Crucible' this year. All that positive being said, it was a bit of a slog to read. Even with the cast of characters at the front, I kept forgetting who everybody was and the litany of crazy 'crimes' and outlandish testimony of flying on broomsticks, and Satan's little block party, etc. started to get old and repetitive. Continued exerts of famous ministers writings about things such as Cotton Mather were quite boring. So the book would often put me to sleep at night with only a few pages having been read. It was quite dense at times.
All and all, I am glad I read it - an easily readable history and I may add her Pulitzer Prize history of Cleopatra to my reading list. Seems to me it is time for a contemporary documentary style movie re-enactment of this story. Creepy how it was eventually brushed under the rug as an embarrassment and a mistake. But of course, the prosecutorss and justices never received any comeuppance or retribution for their fatal errors.… (meer)