Amanda Vaill is a former book publisher and a New York Times bestselling and award-winning biographer, the author of Everybody Was So Young — a biography of the Lost Generation icons Sara and Gerald Murphy; Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins; Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; and most recently the compilation Jerome Robbins, By Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir. Her work for film includes the screenplay for the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning documentary, Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, and her journalism and criticism have appeared in numerous periodicals, from The American Scholar and Architectural Digest to Travel & Leisure and The Washington Post.