For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.
Stacy SchiffI checked to see if thereโd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, โWhat can we know about her education?โ It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
Stacy SchiffA rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and รฉlan. Splendid.
Stacy SchiffNo one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
Stacy SchiffMy next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
Stacy Schiff