Presented in partnership with Massachusetts Historical Society and Porter Square Books.
Following her free virtual book talk, the celebrated author of award-winning histories Stacy Schiff joins co-moderators Ryan J. Woods, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of American Ancestors, and Catherine Allgor, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for an extended Q+A session. The author will engage in further conversation and exploration—answering your questions about the inspirations, research, and process behind her many acclaimed works of history, including her most recent bestseller, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.
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Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government. She is an elected Honorary Trustee of American Ancestors.
Ryan J. Woods is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society and is an appointed member of the Special Commission for the 250th Anniversary of The American Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Catherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. She was previously the Nadine and Robert Skotheim Director of Education at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. She is also a former Professor of History and UC Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside.