Elizabeth Kendall

Elizabeth Bemis Kendall (born April 7, 1947) is an American academic, television writer, and journalist. After working as a writer for the PBS show Great Performances and an editor for Ballet Review, she published several books – particularly Where She Danced, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1992), and Balanchine and the Lost Muse (2013) – mostly focusing on dance history. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at The New School. Biography Elizabeth Bemis Kendall was born on April 7, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri.

She received her Bachelor of Arts (1969) at Radcliffe College and Master of Arts in Teaching in Language and Literature (1971) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. and she later published The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s in 1992. In 2008, she published Autobiography of a Wardrobe, a memoir of herself from the perspective of her own attire. In 2013, she published Balanchine and the Lost Muse, a book on the relationship between ballet choreographer George Balanchine and ballet dancer Lidia Ivanova.

She was also a National Arts Journalism Program Senior Fellow (2002–2003), a New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellow (2004–2005), a Likhachev Foundation Fellow (2009), and a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow (2011–2012). The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1992) American Daughter (2000, memoir) Autobiography of a Wardrobe (2008) Balanchine and the Lost Muse (2013)