Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War Amanda Vaill is a biographer, journalist, and screenwriter. She the author of Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and 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. She is a co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, and has edited or contributed to a number of other books, most recently The Beatles Are Here! Her journalism and criticism have appeared in such publications as Architectural Digest, ArtNews, Ballet Review, Esquire, New York magazine, Town & Country, and the Washington Post. She wrote the screenplay for the PBS/American Masters documentary, Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, which won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award.