The author of a new biography on Queen Cleopatra will read from her book, "Cleopatra: A Life," tonight at the Central Branch of the Free Library. Her book is the basis for a movie starring ...

Cleopatra's foreign policy goal, in addition to preserving her personal power, was to maintain Egypt's independence from the rapidly expanding Roman Empire.

That's the premise of Duane W. Roller's Cleopatra: A Biography, a bare-bones approach to understanding the last ruler of the 270-year-old Ptolemaic dynasty and the only woman in classical ...

Schiff's acclaimed biography doesn't pretend to find the definitive Cleopatra. No ancient biographers met the queen, and she left no writings.

For her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life, New York-based writer Stacy Schiff did meticulous research to craft a new image of the cunning woman and warrior who ruled Egypt.

Cleopatra is not irrelevant, but is she really popular enough to drive such massive hoards of traffic to her 15,000-word encyclopedic entry? Wikipedia editors didn’t think so.

Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q: What is essential to … ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

The same goal drives a new full-length biography, Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen, by Jane Draycott, a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Glasgow.

Schiff’s Cleopatra is even more amazing than the stories. Myth is pretty much all Cleopatra is. The willful, spectacular Cleo of Shakespeare and Shaw. Claudette Colbert in the 1934 film.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening ...

Virgin Books has acquired a biography of Eqyptian queen Cleopatra, which is the basis of a film currently in development, which is set to star Angelina Jolie. Louise Joyner, Virgin editorial ...