![]() ![]() A socialite and heiress turned model and actress, Edie gained her greatest fame as one of Andy Warhol's Superstars, appearing in several of his films and proving a central figure in his legendary Factory scene, the place he made his art, shot his movies, held his infamous parties. The cover blurb from The Atlantic tantalized me: "Everyone knew Edie, from the bedraggled addicts on East Fifth Street to the social register."įor hours, I would sit on my window seat and read it obsessively: all the reminiscences, tales, and gossip from dozens of artists, fashion-world denizens, hustlers and dreamers who had known Edie. The book was Edie: An American Biography, the best-selling oral biography written by Jean Stein and edited with George Plimpton. But no book fascinated me more than one about an artist of a different sort, an artist of her own life: Edie Sedgwick, the premiere mid-1960s It Girl. The figures I read about - the Fitzgeralds, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol - seemed to lead glittering lives. I became a compulsive reader of biographies as a way of imagining myself into lives more dramatic than my own. ![]() ![]() Growing up in Grosse Pointe, a sleepy suburb of Detroit, a place for which the word "serene" seems coined, I was a perpetual yearner. How?Īt 13, I was a girl frantically itching to get out of her own skin. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Edie Subtitle An American Biography Author Jean Stein and George Plimpton ![]()
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