Her journalism and criticism have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar, Architectural Digest, ArtNews, Ballet Review, Esquire, New York Magazine, Town & Country, and The Washington Post. Boyle, Joan Silber, Roxana Robinson, and Angela Carter. Vaill has also worked in the non-profit world, as executive director of the House of SpeakEasy Foundation, and in book publishing, where her authors included Iris Murdoch, Ingmar Bergman, Blanche Cook, T.C. She is currently developing a television series about the Schuyler sisters for TriStar. Her screenplay for the feature-length PBS documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and the film won an Emmy, a CINE Golden Eagle, and the George Foster Peabody Award. 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.
She is the author of 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. AMANDA VAILL has just completed Jerome Robbins, By Himself, a selection of the letters, journals, and other writings of the legendary choreographer-director, and she is currently at work on a biography of the Schuyler sisters, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Angelica Schuyler Church.
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