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Amanda Vaill

Amanda Vaill is the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pride and Pleasure, Everybody Was So Young, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. A publisher and editor for more than twenty years, 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.
Somewhere
Everybody Was So Young

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Somewhere
Everybody Was So Young

Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Each May, we honor the stories, histories, and cultures of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Below is a selection of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators to share with your students this month and throughout the year. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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