Stephen Schiff

Stephen Schiff, a former staff writer at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is a screenwriter whose most recent film is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His biography of Norman Mailer will be published by Henry Holt.

My Crime Against Gore Vidal

Anatomy of a Grudge

As Vidal grudges went, it wasn’t major, but Stephen Schiff remembers inciting the late writer’s ire.

Stephen Schiff | Published Aug 02, 2012

Our Dorothy Parker

<p>Nora Ephron was our Dorothy Parker but so much more, writes screenwriter and friend Stephen Schiff. He salutes her wonderful films, impeccable taste, and versatile strength to the end. Plus, Nancy Hass on how <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/06/27/nora-ephron-dead-at-71-remembered-for-wit-and-wisdom.html">Ephron never stopped</a>, and Joan Juliet Buck on <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/06/27/joan-juliet-buck-on-being-in-awe-of-nora-ephron.html">being in awe of Nora</a>.<br> </p>

Stephen Schiff | Published Jun 26, 2012

Gekko: How Reality Trumped My Sequel

The first writer of the long-awaited Wall Street sequel on how the greatest minds in finance envisioned the new Gordon Gekko—and how wrong they turned out to be.

Stephen Schiff | Published Oct 24, 2008