Includes bibliographical references and index.

1928-1934. Birth ; Pittsburgh ; Carpatho-Rusyns ; Church -- 1934-1945. Family life ; School ; Illness ; The Carnegie Institute ; Schenley High ; College bound -- 1945-1947. Fine arts at Carnegie Tech ; Classmates and teachers ; A dose of failure ; Window dressing ; Gay life and its dangers ; Artistic role models -- 1947-1949. Dada amd film at Tech ; Outlines Gallery and the avant-arde ; Star student ; Origins of the blotted line ; New York horizons -- 1949. First New York digs and contracts ; Fashion magazines ; Record covers, book jackets -- 1949-1951. Franziska Boas and the bohemian life ; A starving-artist commune ; Tommy Jackson and a first flirtation ; Living solo and hunting for work -- 1951-1952. New luxuries ; Otto Fenn ; Stalking Capote ; Julia Warhola arrives ; Commercial success ; Whimsical chapbooks -- 1952-1954. Hugo Gallery and an homage to Capote ; To lower Lexington ; The cats ; The first boyfriend ; The first wig -- 1954-1955. Serendipity Café ; Coloring parties ; Camp ; The Loft Gallery -- 1955-1956. Window display ; Shoes shoes shoes ; Nathan Gluck arrives ; The Bodley Gallery -- 1956-1959. Generosity ; Charles Lisanby ; The world tour ; Compulsive shopping ; Edward Wallowitch ; Ray Johnson ; The foot book ; A silver décor for the theater ; 1,000 names and where to drop them -- 1960-1961. The new town house ; Illness ; Art collecting ; Judson church performances ; Emile de Antonio ; The threat of photography ; An art-market boom -- 1961. Window props become pop art ; Yves Klein ; Ivan Karp and Henry Geldzahler visit the studio -- 1961-1962. Youth culture ; Faux innocence ; The critical reception of pop -- 1962. Warhol, a "new talent" ; Hunt for a gallery ; Painting money ; Soup cans in Los Angeles ; Martha Jackson cancels a show ; The Stable Gallery steps up -- 1962. Birth of a silkscreen ; Liz Taylor and baseball ; "New realists" and the launch of pop ; Marilyn at the stable -- 1963. The firehouse ; Death and disasters ; Costumes for The Beast in Me ; Photo booth portraits ; A portrait of Ethel Scull ; Mona Lisa -- 1963. Gerard Malanga starts work ; Downtown poets ; Amphetamines ; Downtown filmmakers ; Home movies with Jack Smith in Old Lyme ; John Giorno in Sleep ; Kiss ; The haircuts -- 1964. Finding the Factory ; Screen tests ; Billy Name ; The Factory, silvered ; Boxes at the Stable Gallery -- 1964. The first Factory party ; Most Wanted Men for the World's Fair ; A raunch Couch and Blow Job ; The Empire State Building, observed ; Flowers -- 1964. From Eleanor Ward to Leo Castelli ; Stipend stability ; Baby Jane Holzer, girl of the year ; Soap Opera ; Pop goes mainstream -- 1965. An anti-Christmas tree ; Film accolades ; Speed freaks ; Henry Geldzahler smokes a cigar ; Philip Fagan, first of the live-in lovers ; 30 films in one year ; Movies and the death of painting -- 1965. Edie Sedgwick ; To Paris with friends ; Superstardom ; Andy and Edie, fashion twins ; The striped shirt ; The birth of video art: outer and inner space ; Warhol fan clubs ; A celebrity, at last -- 1965. Factory rivalries ; New arrivals: Paul Morrisey, Brigid Berlin, Bibbe Hansen ; Too many parties ; My Hustler ; Danny Williams moves in, then out -- 1965. Andymania at Philadelphia I.C.A. ; Warhol scupts his persona -- 1966. The Velvet Underground ; Rocking a dinner for shrinks ; Fall of Edie, rise of Ingrid Superstar -- 1966. The exploding plastic inevitable ; New Warholians: Mary Woronov, Susan Bottomly, Susan Pile ; The end of illustration ; Money worries, and hopes ; A Velvet Underground album -- 1966. Silver clouds and wallpaper cows ; Julia Warhola at home, and ailing ; Richard Rheem moves in, then out -- 1966. Repetition as an art supply ; A portrait of Holly Solomon ; Clouds and cows cross the country ; A Boston retrospective ; The Velvets on tour ; "You're In" perfume ; Jane Heir, a failed feature film ; The birth of Chelsea Girls -- 1967. Max's Kansas City ; Flesh on film: Bike Boy and Nude Restaurant ; A crumbling Factory ; Rod La Rod; The Andy Warhol Story; Superstar Russian roulette -- 1967. Dead-end art ; Prints, a new income stream ; Chelsea Girls goes national, and to Cannes ; Thirteen Most Wanted Men in Paris ; End of the Velvets -- 1967. Four Stars--25 hours of film ; a: a novel--24 hours of talk ; Andy Warhol's Index (book) ; A fake lecture tour ; Exit Gerard Malanga ; The silver Factory shuts down -- 1968. A new studio on Union Square ; Lonesome Cowboys in Arizona ; Order replaces chaos ; Last of the Factory crowd ; Fancy Fred Hughes ; A survey in Sweden -- 1968. Valerie Solanas ; SCUM Manifesto ; I, a man ; The shooting ; The hospital ; The arrest -- 1968. Recovery ; Security at the studio ; Midnight Cowboy ; Solanas and the feminists ; Flesh and the business of film ; New (super- ) stars: Joe Dallesandro and a transgendered trio -- 1968. Home from the hospital ; Editing Lonesome Cowboy ; 100 happy Rockefellers ; Julia in decline ; Jed Johnson moves in ; Back in the saddle but still sore ; Pat Hackett, ultimate ghostwriter ; Hospital bills, lawsuits and rubber checks ; Profitable portraits -- 1968-1969. Fuck, a blue movie ; Forays into conceptualism: vaccum cleaners and superstars for rent ; "Raid the Icebox" and the museum as art ; Floating chairs and rain machines ; Video ventures ; A sundae for Schrafft's -- 1969. Valerie Solanas gets out ; More surgery ; Rolling Stones album covers ; Hollywood film plans collapse (twice) ; Gerard Malanga's "Male Parade" ; The birth of Interview ; Business art, the next step after art ; Frozen foods at the Andy-Mat -- 1970-1971. A Warhol retrospective (again) ; Bob Colacello and Vincent Fremont come on board ; Andy Warhol, super-shopper ; New patrons: Sandy and Peter Brant ; L'Amour and its crowd ; VIP living ; Failures in theater: Andy Warhol's Pork and Man on the Moon -- 1971-1972. Financial fiddling ; FIne cars and real estate ; Country life and celebrity renters: Lee Radziwill and the Kennedy kids, Mick and Bianca Jagger -- 1972-1973. Julia Warhola heads home to die ; Chairman Mao and the un-death of painting ; Biting into Europe's upper crust ; The Polaroid big shot, for big shots ; Gallstone warning ; Frankenstein and Dracula in Rome ; With Warhol Liz Taylor is in The Driver's Seat -- 1974. Warhol headquarters in Paris ; Interview, fashion and society ; Halston and Glamour ; The bent genders of Ladies and Gentlemen ; The philosophy of Andy Warhol (and of his ghostwriters) ; POPism, a (non- ) autobiography -- 1974-1975. A new home ; Jed Johnson decorates ; Return of Brigid Berlin ; Time Capsules and the fine art of junk ; Highborn interns ; A Rolls-Royce to the Diamond District ; The Interview lunch and its prey -- 1975-1977. Portrait prey: Iranian royals and Imelda Marcos ; At the White House with Gerald Ford ; In Georgia with Jimmy Carter ; Commercial art: athletes, pets, cars, and houses ; Victor Hugo and the nude as landscape ; Piss paintings -- 1977-1980. Studio 54 ; Shadow paintings ; Portraits at the Whitney ; Bad, the last movie ; Jed Johnson leaves -- 1981. Warhol the model ; Exposures: a social life ; Ronald Feldman's buisness propositions ; Outsourcing to Rupert Smith -- 1982-1983. The new art kids ; Warhol and Basquiat ; Rorschach paintings ; Shopping and collecting -- 1982-1986. The ConEd studio ; Andy Warhol TV ; Tensions with Fred Hughes ; Ad work ; The Love Boat ; Camouflage paintings ; Jon Gould ; AIDS ; Warhol's charity -- 1986-1987. Crystal therapy ; Last suppers in Milan ; Stitched photos ; The last runaway ; Gallbladder trouble ; The fatal surgery -- Postlude: afterlife.