It was broadcast as part of PBS's American Masters series and directed by Judy Kinberg. Vaill wrote Something to Dance About a 2009 PBS documentary about Robbins life and work. Vaill was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for her work on Robbins. Her next book was Somewhere, a biography of choreographer Jerome Robbins.

She also contributed to the catalogue for Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, an exhibition mounted by the Williams College Museum of Art, and also shown at the Yale Art Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art. It was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. In 1995 Vaill published Everybody Was So Young, a biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy, prominent 1920s socialites of the French Riviera.

In the 1970s Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She lives in New York City.Ī graduate of Harvard University, she worked in publishing before becoming a writer full-time in 1992. It is a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth, finding it, telling it - and living it, whatever the cost.Amanda Vaill is an American writer and editor, noted for her non-fiction. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples - and a host of supporting characters - living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. And Arturo Barea, chief of the Republican government's foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with their loyalty to their sometimes-compromised cause - a struggle that places both of their lives at risk.

Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic and ground-breaking young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing moder photojournalism in the process. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and a new romance Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers.

Hotel florida by amanda vaill