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.
[2] Her parents were Betty (née Conant) and falconer Henry Cochran Kendall.
[1] As an academic, she specializes in non-fiction, Russian culture in the early-20th century, and history of clothing and textiles.
[1] At New School, she has taught classes on non-fiction, general literature, and cultural history.