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Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is one of our time’s greatest portrait painters— with words. Her first biography, Saint-Exupéry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the same prize that her second work, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), won. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, … Continue reading

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Michael Scammell

Michael Scammell is a distinguished biographer and translator. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn, A Biography (1984) and, most recently, Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic (2010), which won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for … Continue reading

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