Stacy Schiff: The Legacy of the Salem Witch Trials
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
English - October 29, 2023 06:30 - 29 minutes - 29.4 MBBooks Arts History fiction historians idaho authors bestsellers books history idahopublictelevision marciafranklin nonfiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Marcia Franklin talks with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff about her work, The Witches. The book examines the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, delving into what precipitated them, and the participants involved. Franklin talks with Schiff about why she wanted to write the book, the challenges involved and the legacy of the trials.
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Originally Aired: 10/29/2015
The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference” and was taped at the 2015 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.