 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Andy Warhol |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1989 |
| Pages | 807 |
| ISBN | 978-1455561452 |
The Andy Warhol Diaries is the dictated memoirs of the American artist Andy Warhol, published posthumously, edited by his longtime friend and ongoing collaborator Pat Hackett. Warner Books first published the 807-page book in 1989 with an introduction by Hackett.
The text begins on November 24, 1976, concluding eleven years later on February 17, 1987, just five days before Warhol's death. The work is condensed from the complete 20,000-page diary maintained by Hackett.
Origins
Beginning in the fall of 1976, Monday through Friday, Warhol and Hackett talked by phone each morning around 9:00 a.m. and he narrated the events of the previous day. Weekend entries were done the following Monday in a longer session. Hackett transcribed his monologue onto a legal pad. Later in the morning she would use a typewriter to create the diary pages. "But whatever its broader objective," Hackett writes, "its narrow one, to satisfy tax auditors, was always on Andy's mind." The Internal Revenue Service audited Warhol annually.
The Andy Warhol Diaries was published in 1989, after Warhol's death in February 1987, without an index. Unauthorized indexes were subsequently published by Spy and Fame magazines. Newer editions of the book contain an authorized index.
Adaptation
Warhol's diaries were adapted into a six-part television documentary series. Written and directed by Andrew Rossi, the eponymous series premiered March 9, 2022 on Netflix.[1]
