Stacy Schiff

Books + Essays by Stacy Schiff

• The Revolutionary

  • 2022 (Hardcover)
  Little, Brown & Co.
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• The Witches: Salem, 1692

  • 2015 (Hardcover)
  Little, Brown & Co.
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• Cleopatra: A Life

  • 2010 (Hardcover)
  Little, Brown & Co.
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• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

  • 2005
  Henry Holt & Co.
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• Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage

  • 1999
  Random House
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• Saint-Exupéry: A Biography

  • 1994
  Alfred A. Knopf
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Essays + Columns

• "Véra Nabokov Was the First and Greatest Champion of "Lolita" The New Yorker (March 2021)
• "Anger: An American History," New York Times (December 2015)
• "First, Kill the Witches. Then, Celebrate Them." New York Times (October 2015)
• "The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village," The New Yorker (September 2015)
• Book review of Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, by Hermione Lee, New York Times (November 2014)
• "'Voltaire in Love': An Ardent, Intellectual Affair," NPR's "You Must Read This" (January 2011)
• "Indelible Portraits of Women's Lives," The Wall Street Journal (December 2010)
• "Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance," New York Times (December 2010)
• Goddess, Queen, Celebrity: 11 Iconic Images Of Cleopatra And Why They're Wrong, Huffington Post (November 2010)
• "Will the Real Cleopatra Please Stand Up?" W (October 2010)
• "Still Under Cleopatra's Spell," The Wall Street Journal (October 2010)
• Faber Finds: Harold Nicolson's Some People (July 2010)
• "Cleopatra's Comeback," The Daily Beast (June 2010)
• Book review of Yours Ever—People and their Letters, by Thomas Mallon, New York Times (November 2009)
• "Who's Buried in Cleopatra's Tomb?" New York Times (April 2009)