Amanda Vaill

AMANDA VAILL is the author of Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography. She is also co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, an illustrated study of the work of her designer grandfather, and has edited or contributed to a number of other books in the field of arts and culture. Her screenplay for the feature-length PBS documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and the film won an Emmy, a CINE Golden Eagle, and the George Foster Peabody Award.Before becoming a full-time writer in 1992, Ms. Vaill worked in book publishing, most recently as Executive Editor of Viking Penguin, where her authors included Iris Murdoch, Ingmar Bergman, T.C. Boyle, and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Her journalism and criticism have appeared in such publications as ArtNews, Ballet Review, Esquire, New York Magazine, Town & Country, The Washington Post, and Architectural Digest, where she is a Contributing Writer. She lives in New York City, and is currently at work on a narrative history entitled Hotel Florida: Love and Death in Spain, 1936-1939.