The Blauvelt Speaker Series, in collaboration with the Ocean County Library Foundation and the Visiting Writers Series, will present Pulitzer Prize-winning author/biographer Stacy Schiff at the Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15. This event is free and open to the public and will be presented both in person and via livestream.
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, she lives in New York City.
Although tickets are free, advance registration is required. Reserve online at grunincenter.org.
An ASL interpreter will be available at this event.
For more information on all of the Ocean County College Foundation’s upcoming events, visit go.ocean.edu/foundation.
