“No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.” – Stacy Schiff
But, that career path has been a good one for Schiff, who won the 2000 Pulitzer
Prize for Vera, a biography of Vera
Nabokov, wife and muse of Vladimir Nabokov.
She also was a Pulitzer finalist for Saint-Exupéry:
A Biography about French writer and adventurer Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
A native of Massachusetts, Schiff (born Oct. 26, 1961) also has won a number of other awards for
her biographical works on Benjamin Franklin and Cleopatra, and earned a Newberry Library Award for her overall body of writing. But, despite her many prizes, she said that
biographers, including herself, aren’t always objective in their work.
“Oh, I don't
think there is ever objective biography,” she insisted. “Our vision of our subject is always shaped by
who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something
to keep in mind.”
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