All three were New York Times Notable Books the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year.

Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. Schiff is as well the author of Véra (Mrs. Also a #1 bestseller, Cleopatra was translated into 30 languages. As the Wall Street Journal's reviewer put it, 'Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist.' The New Yorker termed the book 'a work of literature ' Simon Winchester predicted 'it will become a classic.' Ron Chernow may explain why: 'Even if forced to at gunpoint, Stacy Schiff would be incapable of writing a dull page or a lame sentence.' Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Brad Gooch has called her 'perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time.' Cleopatra appeared on most year-end best books lists, including the New York Times's Top Ten Books of 2010, and won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography. A Pulitzer Prize-winner, Stacy Schiff is the author of The Witches: Salem, 1692, which The New York Times hailed as 'an almost novelistic, thriller-like narrative.' Joseph Ellis deemed Schiff's the finest account to date of the witch trials David McCullough declared the book 'brilliant from start to finish.' Robert Massie said of the #1 bestseller: 'This brilliant, compelling book is the most meticulously researched, effectively constructed, and beautifully written work I have read in a very long time.' Schiff's previous book, Cleopatra: A Life, was published to great acclaim in 2010.

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