Vera

by Stacy Schiff

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  STACY SCHIFF was educated at Phillips Academy and Williams College. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is the author of Saint-Exupéry: A Biography. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post, among other publications.