Stacy Schiff Quote

There was nothing to be gained by making a man feel unkind for having to refuse a favor, or weak in revealing his inability to do so.

Stacy Schiff

There was nothing to be gained by making a man feel unkind for having to refuse a favor, or weak in revealing his inability to do so.

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About Stacy Schiff

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.