About Amanda Vaill Books
Amanda Vaill is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; 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; and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition to writing the screenplay for the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning public television documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, she has written features and criticism for many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar. She lives in New York City.