Laura Day's video: A Q A with Stephen Schiff on Writing

Laura Day interviews her delicious and talented husband, Stephen Schiff, on writing in Use Your Words! Stephen Schiff is a screenwriter, TV writer-producer, and journalist. His film work includes Lolita (1997), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), True Crime (1999), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and American Assassin (2017). In TV, Schiff was a writer and executive producer of the FX series The Americans, which ran from 2013 to 2018. For his work there, Schiff won a Golden Globe, the Peabody Award, two Writers Guild of America Awards, ­the Critics’ Choice Award, the Television Critics Association (TCA) Award, the American Film Institute (AFI) Award, and the Producers Guild (PGA) Award. He also received two Prime Time Emmy nominations and two additional Writers Guild of America Award nominations. Previously, Schiff had an extensive career in journalism. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in Distinguished Criticism, Schiff was a staff writer at The New Yorker for ten years and was Vanity Fair’s Critic-at-Large for nine years before that.