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Inside Andy Warhol's Factory: A teenager's intimate memoir from 1977

Mark Frauenfelder
May 27, 2025
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Fernanda Eberstadt, granddaughter of Wall Street financier Ferdinand Eberstadt, writes about working at Andy Warhol's Factory in 1977 when she was 16.

From her essay in Granta, titled "Buring Mao."

My parents – New York society people with an interest in downtown art – had first met Andy in the late fifties, when my father w…

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