Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography, and Saint-Exupéry, 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, among other publications. 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.