It is, she writes, “our national nightmare, the undercooked, overripe tabloid episode, the dystopian chapter in our past … America’s tiny reign of terror.” Though the Salem story has been told many times, Schiff’s splendidly written account brings it thrillingly to life. As a historian, she has examined Benjamin Franklin’s diplomacy and, now with “The Witches,” the mysterious events that shook the Massachusetts Bay Colony to its foundations. As a biographer, she has chronicled the lives of Véra Nabokov (thus winning a Pulitzer Prize), Saint-Exupéry and, more recently, Cleopatra. Stacy Schiff, one of our most versatile and nimble writers, boldly ventures into disparate centuries and milieus to bring back tales that illuminate and instruct.
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