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Stacy Schiff

Additional CreditsBorn October 26, 1961 (64 years)
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Véra Nabokova won the 2000 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 Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.

Known For

  • Franklin (2024)

Stacy Schiff Filmography

2025
The American Revolution (2025) (TV Series) · as Self - Writer
2024
Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials (TV Series) · as Self - Author 'the Witches Salem 1692'
2023
Ancient Empires (TV Series) · as Self - Author, Cleopatra: A Life
2022
Benjamin Franklin (2022) (TV Series) · as Self, Author
2018
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self
2012
CBS Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2012
CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self
2006
The Revolution (TV Series) · as Self - Author, A Great Improvisation
2004
Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self
1996
The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self

2024
Franklin (2024) (TV Series) · as Co-Executive Producer
2024
Franklin (2024) (TV Series) · as Book
2020
Cleopatra · as Book

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