ONE OF “12 NEW NONFICTION BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2025”— THE OBSERVER A “MUST-READ” BOOK OF
SPRING 2025 – TOWN & COUNTRY ONE OF “25 BOOKS TO READ IN 2025”— TORONTO STAR From the New
York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing account of the
revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he deemed
his “Superstars”. “Now and then someone would accuse me of being evil ” Andy Warhol
confessed “of letting people destroy themselves while I watched just so I could film them.”
Obsessed with celebrity the silver-wigged artistic icon created an ever-evolving entourage of
stunning women he dubbed his “Superstars”—Baby Jane Holzer Edie Sedgwick Nico Ultra Violet
Viva Brigid Berlin Ingrid Superstar International Velvet Mary Woronov and Candy Darling.
He gave several of them new names and manipulated their beauty and talent for his art and
social status with no regard for their safety their dignity or their lives. In Warhol’s
Muses bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer shines a spotlight on the complex women who
inspired and starred in Warhol’s legendary underground films— The Chelsea Girls The Nude
Restaurant and Blue Movie among others. Drawn by the siren call of Manhattan life in the
sixties they each left their protected enclaves and ventured to a new world Warhol’s famed
Factory having no sense that they would never be able to return to their old homes and
familiar ways again. Sex was casual drugs were ubiquitous parties were wild and to Warhol
everyone was transient temporary and replaceable. It was a dangerous game he played with the
women around him and on a warm June day in 1968 someone entered the Factory and shot him
changing his life forever. Warhol’s Muses explores the lives of ten endlessly intriguing
women transports us to a turbulent and transformative era and uncovers the life and work of
one of the most legendary artists of all time.
