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The Pie is the first topic of discussion in Edie: An American Biography, by Jean Stein and George Plimpton (Knopf, 1982). The book is a discussion of the life and career of Edie Sedgwick, who, although a member of the family, is not buried there but in the small Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard, California. Her epitaph reads "Edith Sedgwick Post ...
Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California, the seventh of eight children of Alice Delano de Forest (1908–1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967), a rancher, sculptor [5] and member of the historical Sedgwick family of Massachusetts.
The Sedgwick family is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics, law, business, and the arts. [ 1 ] The earliest known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire, England, who arrived in ...
Edie Sedgwick bucked social norms for women in the mid-1960's. If you'd been her dad, you'd have been angry and terrified. — Shannon Coultergeist 👻 (@shannoncoulter) May 15, 2017.
In a new book, Alice Sedgwick Wohl explores the life and legacy of her infamous sister and deflates the myth of the poor little rich girl once and for all.
Theodore Sedgwick was the great-grandfather of Ellery Sedgwick, owner and publisher of the Atlantic Monthly 1908–1938; third great-grandfather of Edie Sedgwick, 1965 superstar in Andy Warhol's celebrity world; is the same to present author John Sedgwick; [26] and is fourth great-grandfather to Kyra Sedgwick and Robert Sedgwick, actors. [27] [28]
Alice Sedgwick Wohl's 'As It Turns Out,' on power duo Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, is not a memoir but an investigation of a cultural obsession.
Among the best-known of Warhol's superstars was Edie Sedgwick. [4] She and Warhol became very close during 1965 but their relationship ended abruptly early in the next year. Warhol would continue to associate himself with people including Viva, Candy Darling, Ultra Violet, Nico and International Velvet.