IN PRINT: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Discusses Cleopatra

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff spoke about her most recent book, Cleopatra: A Life, last Wednesday. The biography was a New York Times Book Review’s “Top 10 Books of the Year,” one of Time Magazine’s “Top Nonfiction Books” and one of The New Yorker’s “2010 Favorites.”“As subjects go, they really don’t get much bigger than Cleopatra. She’s part of that exclusive club of historical figures whose names we all recognize but about whom we know virtually nothing,” Schiff explained. “What we do know about her is twisted beyond all recognition.”Read more at The Princeton Packet.