Education
Williams College; Phillips Academy.
Williams College; Phillips Academy.
Schiff, born in Adams, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Times Literary Supplement.
She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review.
She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for or Autobiography for Saint-Exupéry: A of Antoine de Saint Exupérailway Her biography Cleopatra: A Life was published in 2010.
A guest columnist at The New York Times, Schiff resides in New York City. She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Saint-Exupéry: A.