Amanda Vaill

Amanda Vaill's most recent book is PRIDE AND PLEASURE: THE SCHUYLER SISTERS IN AN AGE OF REVOLUTION, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. She is a former book publisher and a New York Times bestselling and award-winning biographer, journalist, and screenwriter. Her previous books include EVERYBODY WAS SO YOUNG, SOMEWHERE, HOTEL FLORIDA, and JEROME ROBBINS, BY HIMSELF. She wrote the screenplay for the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning documentary, JEROME ROBBINS: SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT, and her journalism and criticism have appeared in numerous periodicals from The American Scholar and Architectural Digest to Town & Country and The Washington Post. A finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, a past fellow of the Guggenheim 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.