Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra

A Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780316001922
• ISBN-10: 0316001929
• Artikelnr.: 29001759

Autorenporträt

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and  The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.