TIMOTHY
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Amanda Vaill:
Hi Amanda, Loved “Everybody Was So Young.� Bittersweet. Beautiful. Who doesn’t wish they were there at one time or another? No one I think. You’re very clever. How do you do it? Your background, heritage, DOB etc. - all unavailable so I’ll leave it alone. Am curious though. You could market that skill. Tim O. Boston
Amanda Vaill
Thanks so much for your kind words about EVERYBODY. I have a special place in my heart for that book. As for my background: There used to be a bio on my website, which is currently under reconstruction... but my book jackets all have the relevant info. I’m not sure what skill you think I can market, but believe me, I’m trying! I’m currently visible (and audible) in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Hemingway documentary, and (for readers of my Jerome Robbins bio) in WONDER OF WONDERS, a doc about the making of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. I’m working on a new book, entitled PRIDE AND PLEASURE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIVES OF THE SCHUYLER SISTERS, which is also being developed as a television series. And I’ve done and am doing a number of podcasts as a guest: History Chicks, talking about the Schuylers, a couple related to Hemingway (because of the documentary), and others. So I’m keeping pretty busy. Hope this answers some of your questions � and thanks for being such a sympathetic reader!
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Mark Derby
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Amanda Vaill:
Dear Ms Vaill I'm a New Zealand historian, and the author of several books on the Spanish Civil War. I admired "Hotel Florida" and plan to quote from it in my next book, a biography of Doug Jolly, the NZ surgeon who operated on Gerda Taro at Brunete. I'd love to know more about your sources of information for characters such as the US nurse Irene Goldin. Is there a secure way to discuss this?
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