Book description
Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still
in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than
forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in
history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact
from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new
world order, a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail,
epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous reconstruction of a dazzling life.
Stacey Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer. Her essays and
articles have appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The New York Times Book Review
and
The Times Literary Supplement
and she has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In
2000 Schiff won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov.
She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
about Antoine de Saint Exupéry. In 2006 she received an Academy Award
in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives
in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.
