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Stacy Schiff on the Nabokovs

Stacy Schiff on the Nabokovs

FromSignificant Others


Stacy Schiff on the Nabokovs

FromSignificant Others

ratings:
Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Aug 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Biographer Stacy Schiff joins Liza to discuss the lengths she went to in researching her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Véra. A full list of Stacy Schiff’s books can be found here:https://www.stacyschiff.com/books-and-essays-by-stacy-schiff.html
Released:
Aug 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (49)

Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.