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name: Amanda Vaill
about: AMANDA VAILL's most recent book is Jerome Robbins, By Himself, a selection of the letters, journals, and other writings of the legendary choreographer-director. She is currently completing a dual biography of the Schuyler sisters, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Angelica Schuyler Church. She is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins; 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 AMANDA VAILL's most recent book is Jerome Robbins, By Himself, a selection of the letters, journals, and other writings of the legendary choreographer-director. She is currently completing a dual biography of the Schuyler sisters, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Angelica Schuyler Church. She is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins; 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. She is currently developing a television series about the Schuyler sisters for TriStar.Ms. Vaill has also worked in the non-profit world, as executive director of the House of SpeakEasy Foundation, and in book publishing, where her authors included Iris Murdoch, Ingmar Bergman, Blanche Cook, T.C. Boyle, Joan Silber, Roxana Robinson, and Angela Carter. Her journalism and criticism have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar, Architectural Digest, ArtNews, Ballet Review, Esquire, New York Magazine, Town &amp; Country, and The Washington Post. She lives in New York City, and is a past fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. ...more