About Amanda Vaill
“A biographer with an exquisitely sensitive ear, the stamina for back-breaking reconstruction, and, especially, love.” Marion Meade, author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Amanda Vaill’s most recent book is Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution, published in October 2025. She is the author of three previous biographies — Hotel Florida, Somewhere, and the best-selling Everybody Was So Young, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award — and has co-authored, contributed to, or edited a number of other books in the field of arts and culture. She is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and her journalism and criticism have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Town and Country, and New York.
Amanda grew up in New York City and graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in English Literature. A former book editor, nonprofit executive, and past fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and two cats. ▣