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Amanda Vaill

AMANDA VAILL is the author of Everybody Was So Young, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Seaman Schepps, and Somewhere, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has written on arts and culture for New York, Esquire, Ballet Review, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, and other publications. She lives in New York City.

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