No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
Stacy SchiffHere you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
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 Schiff