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 (1979), 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.
Books in order of publication:
Where She Danced (1979)
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)
Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost & Ballet Reborn (OUP, 2025),
Oak Lawn Library Friends 