Stacy Schiff is the author of "Vera" (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2000, and "Saint-Exupery", which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Schiff's work has appeared in "The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, " and "The Times Literary Supplement". She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City.