Amanda Vaill is the author of Pride and Pleasure, Hotel Florida, Somewhere, and the bestselling Everybody Was So Young, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 & Country, and New York. A 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 New York City.