Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Name: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
ISBN: 9780374603878

by Cynthia Carr

National Book · 2024 · Winner

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Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeptember 17, 2024Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9780374603878

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2024	Winner

About This Book

Cynthia Carr's biography of Candy Darling — the transgender Warhol superstar who died at thirty — draws on Darling's own diaries and photographs to tell the story of a woman who made herself into a work of art in pre-Stonewall New York. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Cynthia CarrUS

Cynthia Carr is an American author, journalist, and cultural critic, who spent many years writing for The Village Voice. She is known for her deeply researched, intimate cultural biographies. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar (2024) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Read more →