Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

“[A] monumental biography.” ―Hilton Als, The New Yorker“A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer icon.” ―Arimeta Diop, Vanity FairFrom the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.You must always be yourself no matter what the price . . . Don’t dare destroy your passion for the sake of others.The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max’s Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alo