Cleopatra was declared a goddess at birth, became a queen at eighteen, married twice - to her own brothers, starting a war against the first and poisoning th...

Biographical author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stacey Schiff has created a vivid portrait of the most controversial woman in world history: Cleopatra, the las...

In the book “Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov),” Stacy Schiff (b. 1960), a brilliant literary critic and biographer, talks about one of the most famous novels of ...

This story began in Massachusetts during the unusually harsh winter of 1692, when the daughter of a local priest suddenly began screaming and convulsing. A y...

Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it ...

Biographical author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stacey Schiff has created a vivid portrait of the most controversial woman in world history: Cleopatra, the las...