Amanda Vaill is the author of  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 her screenplay for the Emmy– and Peabody Award–winning public television documentary "Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About," she has also written features and criticism for a range of journals from Allure to The Washington Post Book World. She lives in New York City.

Books by Amanda Vaill

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

by Amanda Vaill - Biography, History, Nonfiction

HOTEL FLORIDA traces the tangled wartime destinies of three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth: finding it out, telling it and living it --- whatever the cost.

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

by Amanda Vaill