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. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions.
Books in order of publication:
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography. New York: A.A. Knopf.
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Pan Books Ltd. (1999).
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt. (2005).
Cleopatra: A Life. Little, Brown, and Company. (2010).
The Witches: Salem, 1692. Little, Brown, and Company. (2015).
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. Little, Brown & Co. (2022).
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