Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, multiple award-winning, and #1 bestselling author who uses brilliant storytelling to bring to life some of history’s most enigmatic individuals. Her books include Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of multiple awards including the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d’Amérique. Apple TV also recently released a TV series starring Michael Douglas based on A Great Improvisation. Schiff’s book, The Witches: Salem, 1692, was hailed by The New York Times as “an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative.” Joseph J. Ellis deemed it the finest account to date of the witch trials; David McCullough called it “brilliant from start to finish,” and Robert Massie raved, “this brilliant, compelling book is the most meticulously researched, effectively constructed, and beautifully written work I have read in a very long time.”

Schiff’s most recent book, The Revolutionary Samuel Adams, was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among many others, and was one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year.

Schiff has been praised for her meticulous research and witty style; The Wall Street Journal has called her “perhaps the most seductive writer of non-fiction prose in America in our time.” In her talks and lectures, she combines research, storytelling, and history to illuminate the most fascinating—and often overlooked—historical figures, leaving audiences with a new appreciation of their remarkable lives and modern-day relevance. Historian Ron Chernow may explain why: “Even if forced to at gunpoint, Stacy Schiff would be incapable of writing a dull page or a lame sentence.