Amanda Vaill
I've just started work on a dual biography of the Schuyler sisters: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, staunchly loyal wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and a notable philanthropist and social activist in her own right, and her sister Angelica Schuyler Church, international political flirt and muse (or more) to her famous brother-in-law. If you've listened to the Grammy-winning cast album of Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON you already know something about them.
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Mark Derby
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Amanda Vaill:
Dear Ms Vaill I'm a New Zealand historian, and the author of several books on the Spanish Civil War. I admired "Hotel Florida" and plan to quote from it in my next book, a biography of Doug Jolly, the NZ surgeon who operated on Gerda Taro at Brunete. I'd love to know more about your sources of information for characters such as the US nurse Irene Goldin. Is there a secure way to discuss this?
Tim Kotora
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Amanda Vaill:
Not a question? but a thank you for Everybody Was So Young. Just finished it with tears and much joy. Read Honoria’s book twice in the 80s. Your book made me love the Murphys more, made me angrier at Hemingway’s betrayal, made me fed up with Fitzgerald’s childishness. I know them, now, a little, because of your loving scholarship and hard work and artistry. All the best. Many fetes.
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