Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.
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Stacy Schiff was a contemporary American biographer, editor, essayist. Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American essayist. Her biography of VĂ©ra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Read more on Wikipedia →