Elizabeth Kendall

Elizabeth Kendall is the author of the forthcoming Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost & Ballet Reborn (OUP, 2025), as well as Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer (OUP, 2013); two memoirs, Autobiography of a Wardrobe (Pantheon, 2008) and American Daughter (Random House, 2000); The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930’s (Knopf, 1990); and Where She Danced: The Birth of American Art-Dance (Knopf, 1979); as well as numerous articles in magazines and journals about dance, books, fashion and movies. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, Guggenheim Foundation, Cullman Center, Fond Likhacheva, and Leon Levy Center for Biography. She is a professor of Literary Studies/Writing Track at Lang College and NSSR, both of The New School, and is at work on a joint memoir co-authored with Margo Jefferson—Two-Part Inventions: Scenes from a Friendship (forthcoming from Pantheon).