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.
National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, New York Public Library, Director"s Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellowship 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Saint-Exupéry: A 2000 Pulitzer Prize, Vera 2006 Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters 2006 Gilbert Chinard Prize, A Great Improvisation 2006 George Washington Book Prize, A Great Improvisation 2006 Ambassador Book Award (American Studies), A Great Improvisation 2010 EMMA Award for journalistic excellence, "Who"s Buried in Cleopatra"s Tomb?" 2011 Library Lion by the New York Public Library 2011 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for, Cleopatra 2012 Phillips Academy Alumni Award of Distinction 2012 The French-American Foundation Vergennes Achievement Award 2013 Honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College 2014 BIO Award, Biographers International Organization 2015 Newberry Library Award.
