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American biographer, editor, essayist (born )

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, )^[1] is an American essayist.

Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the Pulitzer Prize in biography. 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 FatherSamuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of –93 in colonial Massachusetts.

Early life and career

Schiff was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded by Schiff's great-grandfather in , and Ellen, a professor of French literature at North Adams State college (now called Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts).^[2] Schiff graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and subsequently earned