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Amanda Vaill

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AMANDA VAILL's Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution will be published in autumn 2025. Her previous books are Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins; 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 also co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, an illustrated study of the work of her designer grandfather, and has edited or contributed to a number of other books in the field of arts and culture, including, most recently, Jerome Robbins, By Himself, a selection of the letters, journals, and othe ...more

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	Selected Stories by O. Henry, Amanda Vaill (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor and Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 17,656 ratings — published 1922 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story 4.06 avg rating — 2,545 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War 3.80 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 2014 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beatles Are Here!: 50 Years after the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians & Other Fans Remember by Penelope Rowlands (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Henry Grossman (Photographer), Joe Queenan (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins 4.09 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir by Jerome Robbins, Amanda Vaill (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design by Amanda Vaill (欧宝娱乐 Author), Janet Zapata 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill (欧宝娱乐 Author), Christopher Kipiniak (narrator), Audible Studios For Bloomsbury (publisher) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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... That’s kind of how you feel when you’re waiting for the public unveiling of something you’ve spent years of work and emotional, psychological, and intellectual capital on: as if you’re walking unprotected into a falling rock zone.

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Amanda and 10 other people liked Michelle's review of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War: "This was EXCELLENT. I was hoping it'd be good. I have always been interested in the Spanish Civil War. It was actually a useful thing for me--as an idealistic, leaning-socialistic young kid who admired the Left---well, the Right in the Spanish Civil " Read more of this review ?
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Amanda answered Fastidious Kingdoms's question: I loved your biography of the Murphys, and hope to revisit it soon. I’ve carried around a question the past 10 years or more, and you’re one of a handful on the entire planet who might know the answer. Although they all lived in Paris at the same time and hung out with the same people, I’ve never been able to confirm if the Murphys ever met Sylvia Beach or Getrude and Alice. Do you know? Thank you! Apologies for not responding promptly to your question -- I was dealing with the copy edited manuscript of my new book (about the Schuyler Sisters) and haven't been checking 欧宝娱乐. Here's what I know: The Murphys did indeed meet and know both Sylv See Full Answer
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Amanda and 35 other people liked Claire Fuller's review of Brother of the More Famous Jack: "What a joy this book is. A literary romance. Aged about 19 Kath meets a bohemian family with six children and falls in love with them, and especially the eldest son, Roger. And I fell in love with them. After the end of that first love affair, Kath m" Read more of this review ?
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“We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.”
― Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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“Le Bal du comte d’Orgel.”
― Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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“In a road-mender’s hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: “La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau.” (“Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.”)”
― Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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