Amanda Vaill author biography, plus links to books by Amanda Vaill.

Amanda Vaill

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.

This biography was last updated on 10/21/2025.

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