The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world- Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
The massive bestselling life story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt - 350,000 hardbacks sold in 22 weeks on New York Times List
Stacey Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement and she has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000 Schiff won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Saint-Exupery- A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupery. In 2006 she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.
Under [Schiff's] pen, the mirage of Cleopatra shimmers down the
deserts of time and suddenly stands before us, in new and thrilling
sharp focus ... full of well researched context and much learned
speculation
*Daily Mail*
We see a great queen painted in dazzling colours in the twilight of
a dazzling kingdom ... new life is breathed into an indisputably
authentic icon
*Sunday Times*
An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and
pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... formidable and
spellbinding achievement
*Guardian*
[Schiff] has done her homework and writes elegantly and wittily,
creating truly evocative word pictures.
*Independent*
Schiff has produced a highly literary, imaginative, coherent
narrative, "restoring context" to the sources she delves into in an
intelligent way. Her writing is energetic, evocative... She also
has an unerring nose for what is interesting
*Daily Telegraph*
Under [Schiff's] pen, the mirage of Cleopatra shimmers down the
deserts of time and suddenly stands before us, in new and thrilling
sharp focus ... full of well researched context and much learned
speculation -- Jan Moir * Daily Mail *
We see a great queen painted in dazzling colours in the twilight of
a dazzling kingdom ... new life is breathed into an indisputably
authentic icon * Sunday Times *
An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and
pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... formidable and
spellbinding achievement * Guardian *
[Schiff] has done her homework and writes elegantly and wittily,
creating truly evocative word pictures. * Independent *
Schiff has produced a highly literary, imaginative, coherent
narrative, "restoring context" to the sources she delves into in an
intelligent way. Her writing is energetic, evocative... She also
has an unerring nose for what is interesting * Daily Telegraph *
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