![]() ![]() ![]() So for the school year we’ve always been here. Throughout her married life, Schiff and her husband, a Canadian businessman, have had a commuter marriage. In fact, Schiff works at two enormous desks-one in Manhattan and one in Canada. I just can’t do that on a small-size desk.” “For whatever reason, I physically like to have the maps, my notes, the articles and the books all on my desk while I’m working. Schiff speaks rapidly and with enthusiasm. “You’re synthesizing massive amounts of raw material,” she explains during a call to her home just north of the grand, Beaux-Arts main branch of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, a favorite haunt. Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches, a brilliant, exceptionally well-researched account of the 1692 Salem witch trials, says her number one requirement when writing her prize-winning nonfiction books is “a big desk, an enormous desk!” ![]()
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