Amanda Vaill
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Amanda Vaill

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Amanda Vaill is a former book publisher and a New York Times bestselling and award-winning biographer, journalist, and screenwriter. Her most recent title is JEROME ROBBINS, BY HIMSELF: SELECTIONS FROM HIS LETTERS, JOURNALS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND AN UNFINISHED MEMOIR, which she selected and wrote commentary for. Her previous books include EVERYBODY WAS SO YOUNG: GERALD AND SARA MURPHY – A LOST GENERATION LOVE STORY; SOMEWHERE: THE LIFE OF JEROME ROBBINS; and HOTEL FLORIDA: TRUTH, LOVE, AND DEATH IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR; and her work for film includes the screenplay for the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning documentary, JEROME ROBBINS: SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUt. Her journalism and criticism have appeared in numerous periodicals, from The American Scholar and Architectural Digest to Travel & Leisure and The Washington Post. A finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2017 Fellow of the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, and a 2018-19 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she lives in New York City, and is currently at work on PRIDE AND PLEASURE, a dual biography of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (wife of Alexander) and her sister Angelica Schuyler Church.
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