Stacy Schiff is the author of Saint-Exupery, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Published in seven foreign editions, the book won prizes in France and in Canada. Schiff's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

She lives in New York City and western Canada.