Amanda Vaill

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...See more

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. See less