Stacy Schiff Quotes


From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.


Citations

Schiff, Stacy. Interview with Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, 1 Nov. 2010.

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Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff
  • Born: October 26, 1961
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer Editor

Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.