A Pulitzer Prize-winner, Stacy Schiff is the author of several bestselling biographies and historical works, including Cleopatra: A Life, and, most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.