Book description
Born into a wealthy New England family, Edie Sedgwick became, in the
1960s, both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned
by Andy Warhol. Edie was outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly
beautiful. Her childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamouros
father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, kown to
everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds of the day.
She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films
and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her.
Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a
short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of the decade.
Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines,
including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is
co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of
Robert Kennedy and in 1990 she became the editor of the literary
journal Grand Street, until it ended in 2004. It was described
by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary
magazines of the postwar era'.
George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In
1953 he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including
Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and
Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the
Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey
Man. He died in September 2003.
