In the latest event in the History Matters series, Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Schiff joins us for a conversation about her new book about Samuel Adams, The Revolutionary. Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams' improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies. Arresting, original, and deliriously dramatic, this is a long-overdue chapter in the history of our nation. Stacy Schiff is the author of The Witches: Salem, 1692, Cleopatra: A Life, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Saint-Exupery: A Biography, and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications.
This event is free and open to the public. Guests are invited to join Stacy Schiff and the college community on campus, or join via Zoom. For those attending in person, a reception will follow this discussion, as will a book signing presented by Bronxville's Womrath Bookshop.