Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and to Warhol's muse - Edie Sedgewick - about whom Lou Reed wrote 'Femme Fatale' and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982). At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland sang 'Over the Rainbow' later she had an affair with William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was Elia Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for' Norman Mailer 'Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us. Jean Stein's classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other. 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. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. Born into a wealthy New England Edie's childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. You can't put it down' LA Times Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.

A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick 'Exceptionally seductive.

Edie by jean stein