WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY**“Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building.” —The Atlantic“A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill’s signature warmth, humor and insight.” —The New York Times Book Revie...

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. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever.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 ...

Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunían los periodistas extranjeros, los fotógrafos, los espías, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en una guerra que los cambió a todos para siempre. Hote...

"[An] utterly compelling account . . . of the intrepid—and sometimes crazy—journalists who risked everything to report on the Spanish Civil War." —Amanda Foreman, New York Times–bestselling authorMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" —six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his m...

The “fantastically interesting” (NPR’s All Things Considered) biography of the legendary, intensely ambitious choreographer and director who changed Broadway with his productions of Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, and Gypsy—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pride and Pleasure“Superlative . . . a vivid account of a theatrical wizard.”—VogueTo some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perf...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY**“Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building.” —The Atlantic“A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill’s signature warmth, humor and insight.” —The New York Times Book Revie...

The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words--the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography--from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, diaries, never before published. Edited, and with commentary by Amanda Vaill, author of Robbins's biography, Somewhere, 2006 ("I can't imagine a better book about Robbins ever being written"--Terry Teachout, chief drama critic,...

The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words--the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography--from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, diaries, never before published. Edited, and with commentary by Amanda Vaill, author of Robbins's biography, Somewhere, 2006 ("I can't imagine a better book about Robbins ever being written"--Terry Teachout, chief drama critic,...